Veronica Roth Quotes - Page 2

Some people might leave you,' he said, for once ignoring a joke in favor of something real. 'But it doesn't mean you're worth leaving. It doesn't mean that at all.
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You know,' he said, the condition of sourness--or monstrousness, as you might call it--doesn't have to be permanent.'P189
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...something important is lost if this man has been forced to deny his own nature.
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I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding.
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I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
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And what this is, I realize, is life. I don't want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I've been trying to claw my way back to them, and now I am so close and he is telling me not to.
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And there were some things I didn't know I had until I lost them.
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This is supposed to be a lighthearted session of symbolic document destruction, not a political debate.
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I'll only go if there's cake.~Tobias "Four
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The only reason I haven't shot you yet is because he's the one who should get to do it," I say. "Stay away from him or I'll decide I no longer care.
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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 fight or lie to each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.
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The division is based on knowledge, based on qualifications - but as I learned from the factionless, a system that relies on a group of uneducated people to do its dirty work without giving them a way to rise is hardly fair.
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That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel.
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She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love.
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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 everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
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But then he stops at the door frame and says, It's 9:24. Telling me the time is a small act of betrayal-and therefore an ordinary act of bravery. It is maybe the first time I've seen Peter be truly Dauntless.
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maybe here, in dauntless, bravery is the highest form of wisdom. the acknowledgement that life can and should be lived without fear
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Now it seems like no matter what I decide, I'll be betraying someone.
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Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, it's facing the death you know is coming.
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I think I speak for everyone," he says, "when I say you have earned the title of Dauntless".
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What is wrong with you?' I shake my head. 'Pull it together.' And that's what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up and in like a shoelace. I feel suffocated, but at least I feel strong.
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A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.
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Stupid. Why do people want to pretendthat death is sleep? It isn’t. It isn’t
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The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was risking when she risked her life."pg 337
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She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.
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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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... but in an attack, surviving is an accident. It doesn't take skill to stand in a place where no bullets find you, or to fire into the dark and hit a man you didn't see. It is all luck, or providence, depending on what you believe.
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Honor,” I said with a snort. “Honor has no place in survival.
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It’s getting more difficult to be wise,” he says, laughing into my ear.I smile at him. “I think that’s how it’ssupposed to be.
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I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.
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If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned it from anyone.
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I can't leave her now. I like her too much. There, I said it. But I won't say it again.
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I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice.""What Ch
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I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave
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It’s not about Al,” I snap. “It’s about everyone watching! Everyone who now seeshurling themselves into the chasm as a viable option. I mean, why not do it if everyonecalls you a hero afterward? Why not do it if everyone will remember your name? It’s…Ican’t…
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She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none.
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This is what I chose. This is it." I look over Robert's shoulder. The Dauntless guards seem to have finished examining the truck. The bearded man gets back into the driver's seat and closes the door behind him. "Besides, Robert. The goal of my life isn't just...to be happy." "Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?" he says
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So this is where you grew up. Did you like it here? I guess you couldn't have, if you wanted to leave.' CHRISTINA'I liked some things and hated some things. And there were some things I didn't know I had until I lost them.' TRIS
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Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt
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Aren’t you going to ask me if I’m all right?” I say.“No, I’m pretty sure you’re not all right.”He shakes his head. “I’m going to ask you not to make any decisions until we’ve talkedabout it.
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Sleep," he says. "I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.""With what?""My bar hands, obviously."In the moments before i drift off to sleep, i hear him whisper, "I love you, Tris.
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She is a woman of muscle twisted around bone.
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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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(...) I do want to leave, in the desperate way that an animal wants to escape a trap. Wild and rabid. Ready to gnaw through bone.
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It's not often you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest parts of someone. It's not comfortable when you do.
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It is impossible to erase my choices.
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I am wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, black shoes--new clothes, but beneath them, my Dauntless tattoos. It is impossible to erase my choices. Especially these.
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You're the one who has to live with your choice," she says. "Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.
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If we're afraid to be ourselves, then who are we? Where's there left to hide?But if we could concur that fear, we just might be strong, powerful. We just might be unstoppable.
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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.
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I open my eyes and for the first time stare openly at my own reflection. My heart rate picks up as I do, like I am breaking the rules and will be scolded for it. It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else. …Looking at myself now isn’t like seeing myself for the first time; it’s like seeing someone else for the first time. Beatrice was a girl I saw in stolen moments at the mirror, who kept quiet at the dinner table. This is someone whose eyes claim mine and don’t release me; this is Tris.
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no wonder you left."Yeah," i say, rolling my eyes. " It was just because of the food.
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Damn,' someone behind me says. 'I was hoping we would get to scrape some Stiff pancake off the pavement later.
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Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words "Thank you for your honesty" at different volumes and pitches, and my anger begins to dissolve.
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It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.
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Why is your heart racing Tris?
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- It doesn't do anything obvious. But it might be able to do something in here. - Then she touched her hand to her heart. - Beautiful things sometimes do.
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Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions. We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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(...) a man encased in ice, his eyes hard and his voice like a frosty exhale.
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Everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.
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