There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
VERONICA ROTHSometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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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.
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I also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
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To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community.
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He stares at me, and I don’t look away. He isn’t a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive.
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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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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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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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