“It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.”
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Allegiant
The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered -- fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories. But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind. Old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless. Explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loves. And once again, Tris must battle to comprehend the complexities of human nature -- and of herself -- while facing impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice and love.
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Veronica Roth
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“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”
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“Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.”
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“You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.”
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“She believes that Tobias belongs to her now. She doesn't know the truth, that he belongs to himself.”
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“It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all...”
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“The person you became with her is worth being.”
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“I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.”
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“There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up ev...”
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“I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we...”
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“If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?”
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“I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.”
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“I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.”
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“I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already...”
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“I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.”
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“We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.”
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“To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself...”
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“But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more k...”
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“I look out the window again, taking slow, deep breaths into a body too tense to move. And as I stare out at the land, I think that this, if nothing else, is compelling evidence for my parent...”
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