The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
VERONICA ROTHKilling you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Lies require commitment.
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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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’m sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what’s wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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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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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
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I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I’ve done, but I’m sure my list would never be complete.
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I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
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It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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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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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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