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We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last people left.
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I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die, and we move on to the next dangerous thing. The sooner that lesson sinks in, the better chance I have at surviving initiation.
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Some people will always fear change. But we can't indulge them.
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I don't see any elderly people in the crowd. Are there any old Dauntless? Do they not last that long, or are they just sent away when they can't jump off moving trains anymore?
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My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldn't belong there, among people who give without thinking and care without trying.
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You're not a coward just because you don't want to hurt people.
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Few people who are born into Abnegation choose to leave it. When they do, we remember.
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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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Sometimes, he says, sliding his arm across my shoulders, people just want to be happy, even if it's not real.
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I settle into their pace. The uniform pounding of feet in my ears and the homogeneity of the people around me makes me believe that I could choose this. I could be subsumed into Abnegation's hive mind, projecting always outward.
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August 19, 1988
(age 36)
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