Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
VERONICA ROTHIt 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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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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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.
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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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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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You won,” Four mutters. “Stop.” I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes are too wide; they look alarmed.
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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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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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