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  • It's one of the many things Erudite gives as evidence of Abnegation's incompetence.†   (source)
  • Also, when Jeanine attacked Abnegation, she got all the Abnegation data.†   (source)
  • The streets in the Abnegation sector, now crawling with Dauntless soldiers.†   (source)
  • Then how do you explain all the Abnegation children?†   (source)
  • I heard you talking to Johanna about what motivated Jeanine's attack on Abnegation.†   (source)
  • When I look at the Abnegation lifestyle as an outsider, I think it's beautiful.†   (source)
  • I thought only the Abnegation used the stairs.†   (source)
  • One of the Abnegation puts a cup of steaming liquid under my nose and says, "Drink this.†   (source)
  • The Abnegation leaders told them what we had to tell them.†   (source)
  • The Abnegation greeted one another by bowing heads, a sign of respect.†   (source)
  • I wanted to acknowledge a part of myself that Abnegation demanded that I hide.†   (source)
  • You transferred from Abnegation to Dauntless?†   (source)
  • "Except," says Marcus, "Joshua is not an Abnegation name."†   (source)
  • If Abnegation is fizzling, it's our fault—Robert's and Caleb's and mine.†   (source)
  • Abnegation would welcome you back; I'm sure of it.†   (source)
  • Five years ago, volunteer construction workers from Abnegation repaved some of the roads.†   (source)
  • Everyone but the Abnegation takes mirrors for granted.†   (source)
  • And technically, I also got an Abnegation result—according to the system.†   (source)
  • It has been years since I jumped off a building in my Abnegation uniform; it has been decades.†   (source)
  • I wonder what Johanna, the Amity, and the Abnegation are doing in this chaos.†   (source)
  • That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation.†   (source)
  • I didn't know that most of the Divergent came from Abnegation, and I don't know why that would be.†   (source)
  • Candor values honesty, but our faction, Abnegation, values selflessness.†   (source)
  • Along time ago, the Abnegation were entrusted with some sensitive information," says Marcus.†   (source)
  • Murdered every single Abnegation leader?†   (source)
  • "And too Abnegation to 'celebrate," ' remarks Lynn.†   (source)
  • If I participate in the attack, I can't go after the information Jeanine stole from Abnegation.†   (source)
  • The only people I do not see are the Abnegation leaders.†   (source)
  • At the Abnegation table, we sit quietly and wait.†   (source)
  • "Your hair is pretty short for an Amity," she says…. he did not cut his hair like the Abnegation.†   (source)
  • They just want more say, that's all, and they resent Abnegation for refusing to listen to them.†   (source)
  • It is made of tarnished, dull metal, an Abnegation wedding band.†   (source)
  • And the Abnegation don't drink alcohol, so everyone is sober.†   (source)
  • No, the Abnegation were inclined toward forgiveness and reconciliation, as you might expect.†   (source)
  • Particularly among a pack of Abnegation.†   (source)
  • Maybe if I fight to make Abnegation work, my act will turn into reality.†   (source)
  • I HAVE ATTENDED Abnegation's initiation ceremony every year except this one.†   (source)
  • The Abnegation were reluctant to provide information that only serves to relieve curiosity.†   (source)
  • So am I—the Abnegation don't hold grudges.†   (source)
  • Maybe there is some Abnegation in everyone, even if they don't know it.†   (source)
  • I should tell her that my result was Abnegation, because that's what Tori recorded in the system.†   (source)
  • How many Abnegation did she kill, guided by the simulation?†   (source)
  • My father: Erudite-born, Abnegation-grown.†   (source)
  • All the Abnegation looked the same to me.†   (source)
  • "My allegiance lies with anyone who does not support the attack on Abnegation," he says.†   (source)
  • Abnegation uses it to describe self-indulgence.†   (source)
  • I could belong in Abnegation just as easily.†   (source)
  • You are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Abnegation.†   (source)
  • I do not regret choosing Dauntless or leaving Abnegation.†   (source)
  • And he wears the gray clothes of the Abnegation.†   (source)
  • Many children who are raised Abnegation receive that kind of result.†   (source)
  • Before he can go on, the cafeteria doors open, and a group of Abnegation come in.†   (source)
  • You're not cutting your hair like the Abnegation anymore," I say.†   (source)
  • I'm sure Abnegation would make an exception for you.†   (source)
  • "The facts," says Marcus, "are that she is terrified of reality, and the Abnegation were not.†   (source)
  • There is no better place to need help than a room full of members of Abnegation.†   (source)
  • We are in the basement of Abnegation headquarters.†   (source)
  • I thought you said only the Abnegation leaders knew.†   (source)
  • Of course she isn't curious—she's Abnegation.†   (source)
  • It must be someone from Abnegation, or from school.†   (source)
  • This would never have happened in Abnegation!†   (source)
  • She is referring to the group of Abnegation who were with my father and Marcus in the safe house.†   (source)
  • Or relieved, because the last Abnegation leader is still alive?†   (source)
  • My theory is that you really do belong in Abnegation.†   (source)
  • And because the Abnegation don't take photographs, the only documentation I have of how they looked.†   (source)
  • I could be subsumed into Abnegation's hive mind, projecting always outward.†   (source)
  • I try to think of the attack simulation, and what it did to the Abnegation.†   (source)
  • Abnegation and Dauntless are both broken, their members scattered.†   (source)
  • Am I wired like the Abnegation, or the Dauntless?†   (source)
  • By now, the Abnegation at the other end of the table are paying attention.†   (source)
  • The Abnegation are willing to die for any person, friend or enemy, if the situation calls for it.†   (source)
  • Abnegation prepared me for that aspect of Dauntless life.†   (source)
  • I may not be an Abnegation-loving faction traitor.†   (source)
  • Are there any Abnegation initiates this year?†   (source)
  • Stiff" is slang for Abnegation, and I'm the only one here.†   (source)
  • The other Abnegation and myself have discussed it and decided that we should not stay here.†   (source)
  • I scan the screens, one by one, looking for one that shows the Abnegation sector of the city.†   (source)
  • If I had to guess, I would say that one of the Abnegation put the stack there for me.†   (source)
  • "Abnegation, Dauntless," I say, "and Erudite."†   (source)
  • People who tell the truth are the Candor …. and the Abnegation," she says.†   (source)
  • I have equal aptitude for Erudite as I do for Dauntless and Abnegation, after all.†   (source)
  • My brother, born for Abnegation, Erudite?†   (source)
  • Halfway to the bowls, I am sure that I will choose Abnegation.†   (source)
  • The Abnegation sit in tight rows a few yards to my left.†   (source)
  • The Abnegation are dying again, dying like they were when I pretended to be under the simulation.†   (source)
  • An Abnegation volunteer speaks the next round of names.†   (source)
  • I transferred into Dauntless from Abnegation.†   (source)
  • All the Abnegation will die if this continues.†   (source)
  • The door is open, and through it I see Tobias stuffing Abnegation clothes into the trash bin.†   (source)
  • I brush over Abnegation's symbol with my fingertips.†   (source)
  • He gets up and sits at the other end of the table with the rest of the Abnegation.†   (source)
  • The Abnegation volunteer agency my mother works for is responsible for most of those renovations.†   (source)
  • The Abnegation are modest to the point of discomfort.†   (source)
  • "He wanted you to be the small, quiet girl from Abnegation," Four says softly.†   (source)
  • I wonder what the Abnegation leaders—including my father—were doing.†   (source)
  • My odds, as the smallest initiate, as the only Abnegation transfer, are not good.†   (source)
  • Marcus said that information the Abnegation possessed motivated Jeanine's attack on Abnegation.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the little Abnegation girl inside of you would take that more seriously.†   (source)
  • I am supposed to be braver than the Abnegation, but they don't seem as worried as I am.†   (source)
  • "Never met a curious Abnegation before," she says, raising her eyebrows at me.†   (source)
  • I can't wage war against Abnegation, against my family.†   (source)
  • The Abnegation deaths are just another weight I am unable to set down.†   (source)
  • My curiosity is a mistake, a betrayal of Abnegation values.†   (source)
  • Is it hard for you to be in an Abnegation house again?†   (source)
  • What's an Abnegation member doing in a truck with two Amity?†   (source)
  • If Caleb wasn't fit for Abnegation, how can I be?†   (source)
  • The Erudite don't let the Abnegation into their compound anymore.†   (source)
  • "Susan wants to go see the Abnegation," he says.†   (source)
  • Your stupid ex-faction isn't just insulting Abnegation anymore.†   (source)
  • Several members of Abnegation, three members of Dauntless, and a former Erudite initiate.†   (source)
  • "Fair enough," he says, "but why were the Abnegation so concerned with finding the Divergent?†   (source)
  • I will pretend long enough to get to the Abnegation sector of the city.†   (source)
  • I don't know why someone would avoid the Abnegation.†   (source)
  • Even when I was supposed to be Abnegation.†   (source)
  • Few people who are born into Abnegation choose to leave it.†   (source)
  • If this were Abnegation, no Divergent would be sitting here right now.†   (source)
  • If my mother was Dauntless, why did she choose Abnegation?†   (source)
  • But your father has a lot of influence over the Abnegation, and he always has.†   (source)
  • I was about to rattle off a few more holidays, but only the Abnegation celebrate them.†   (source)
  • Maybe Four was one of the Erudite, which explains why he hates Abnegation.†   (source)
  • Tori reported my result as Abnegation, so that is what is in the system.†   (source)
  • You think the Abnegation would really exile someone?†   (source)
  • We join the crowd of Abnegation-turned-Amity.†   (source)
  • Since then, Erudite has released two articles about Abnegation.†   (source)
  • The Abnegation sector is far from quiet.†   (source)
  • Why are most of the Divergent weak-willed, God-fearing nobodies from Abnegation, of all factions?†   (source)
  • You choose this moment to act like the Abnegation?†   (source)
  • If he wasn't Abnegation, I'm sure the girls at school would stare at him.†   (source)
  • I wish I could tell my parents that I will die like the Abnegation.†   (source)
  • Abnegation is a strange faction, I have to tell you.†   (source)
  • Maybe it's better that Abnegation wants me to suppress it.†   (source)
  • "I wasn't good enough for Abnegation," I say, "and I wanted to be free.†   (source)
  • Idly I think, How could he ever have been Abnegation?†   (source)
  • I don't make a habit of associating with the Abnegation.†   (source)
  • "Your Abnegation is showing," says Christina.†   (source)
  • Abnegation stood in the way of her desire for power, so she found a way to eliminate it.†   (source)
  • Is that why you got Abnegation's symbol tattooed on your shoulder?†   (source)
  • His eyes roam over the symbol of Abnegation, and he smiles.†   (source)
  • Not Dauntless, not Abnegation, not factionless.†   (source)
  • That every second I waste means another Abnegation dead and another Dauntless made into a murderer?†   (source)
  • You have a lot of Abnegation leaders to murder, after all.†   (source)
  • Of those, I am the only Abnegation transfer, and there are no Amity transfers.†   (source)
  • But she must hide that beauty in Abnegation.†   (source)
  • I recognize her, but not from a factionless warehouse—from the Abnegation sector.†   (source)
  • Only they didn't do much with the memory serum—the Abnegation serum.†   (source)
  • "With the Abnegation memory serum," Reggie says.†   (source)
  • Abnegation's quiet, their community, their routine, always seemed good to me.†   (source)
  • "To the Abnegation, power should only be given to people who don't want it."†   (source)
  • You know what the Abnegation used to say about pride?†   (source)
  • I've never known an Abnegation to pick up a weapon.†   (source)
  • I don't belong to Abnegation, or Dauntless, or even the Divergent.†   (source)
  • When I was young, my father used to do it, in the hallway on the top floor of our Abnegation house.†   (source)
  • Even though she took an Abnegation name?†   (source)
  • Even the Abnegation leadership was poisoned by it.†   (source)
  • I am beginning to understand why my mother joined Abnegation when she was supposed to join Erudite.†   (source)
  • But she was still able to carry out her mission in Abnegation.†   (source)
  • His hair, cropped close to his skull in the Abnegation style, does not help this impression.†   (source)
  • "The Abnegation have teachings about this, you know," he says.†   (source)
  • "It's not about what they did to the Abnegation.†   (source)
  • And Abnegation who switch to Dauntless become ….†   (source)
  • But Edith is an Abnegation name, and my father's relatives must have been Erudite, so …."†   (source)
  • The Abnegation react to death with silence and service, not words.†   (source)
  • Of course, Abnegation turned out to be no better, in some ways.†   (source)
  • The highest proportion of Divergent was among the factionless, not Abnegation.†   (source)
  • Andrew and I are going to choose Abnegation together.†   (source)
  • So tomorrow, at the Choosing Ceremony, Andrew and I are going to choose Abnegation together.†   (source)
  • "We call it 'memory serum,' since it doesn't technically just belong to the Abnegation, but yeah.†   (source)
  • She made me think, for the first time, that I could leave Abnegation—that I had to.†   (source)
  • What happened to make her join Abnegation instead?†   (source)
  • Abnegation produces deeply serious people.†   (source)
  • "Would we have chosen the same factions we did if Mom and Dad hadn't chosen Abnegation?"†   (source)
  • He was an Abnegation leader, after all, and as such, one of the keepers of the truth.†   (source)
  • "It's the Abnegation in you," Amar says.†   (source)
  • Worse than killing most of the Abnegation?†   (source)
  • Better to end the lives of the Abnegation than to risk the experiment.†   (source)
  • I see Abnegation bodies and Erudite bodies sprawled over streets and staircases.†   (source)
  • Abnegation was about to reveal the truth to everyone inside the city.†   (source)
  • I wonder what the Abnegation treat would have been, if they had one.†   (source)
  • What's left of Abnegation is with us.†   (source)
  • It is not what I expect in an Abnegation house, where everything is always quiet, no matter how many people are gathered within.†   (source)
  • The rest of the Abnegation spread throughout the room, and Caleb and Peter are a few seats down from me.†   (source)
  • I get the sense that if I were to whittle her down to her core, she would be Abnegation all the way through.†   (source)
  • All Abnegation houses are the same, so this living room is exactly the same as my own, and it does bring back memories, if I look at it carefully.†   (source)
  • Said she saw an Abnegation woman get killed while she was on a mission for Jeanine and couldn't stomach it anymore.†   (source)
  • She left Dauntless not because she was ill-suited for it but because it was safer to be Divergent in Abnegation.†   (source)
  • The face of Abnegation headquarters is just a cement rectangle, like all the other buildings in the Abnegation sector.†   (source)
  • A week before the simulation attack, the Abnegation leaders decided it was time to reveal the information in the file to everyone.†   (source)
  • The Dauntless or the Candor, maybe, because bravery and honesty make people do strange things, but the Abnegation?†   (source)
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