I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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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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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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“Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.
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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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Do I look like I’ve been crying?’ I say. ‘Hmm.’ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he’s inspecting my face.
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I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
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Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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When you’re a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that’s really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff.
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I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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