Veronica Roth - Allegiant (2013)

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She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love.

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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.

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I brought you the truth about our city and the reason we are in it. If you aren't thanking me for it, you should at least do something about it instead of sitting here on this mess you made, pretending it's a throne!

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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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I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint.

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But when you kill someone you love, the hard part is never over. It just gets easier to distract yourself from what you've done.

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I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.

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I touch her cheek to slow the kiss down, holding her mouth on mine so I can feel every place where our lips touch and every place where they pull away. I savor the air we share in the second afterwards and the slip of her nose across mine. I think of something to say, but it is too intimate, so I swallow it. A moment later I decide I don't care. "I wish we were alone," I say as I back out of the cell. She smiles. "I almost always wish that.

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Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.

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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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Some people will always fear change. But we can't indulge them.

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Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities.

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She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none.

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You know I'm getting a little tired of waiting for you to catch on.

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I take a deep breath. I'm not sure where that swell of desperation came from, but know that I've acknowledge it, it's impossible to ignore, like a living thing has awakened from a long sleep inside me. It writhes in my stomach and throat. I need to leave. I need the truth.

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You're not very nice," I say, grinning. "You're one to talk." "Hey, I could be nice if I tried." "Hmm." He taps his chin. "Say something nice, then." "You're very good-looking." He smiles, his teeth a flash in this dark. "I like this 'nice' thing.

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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.

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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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