My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
VERONICA ROTHHe is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Resisting is worth doing.
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Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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Lies require commitment.
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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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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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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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In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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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 gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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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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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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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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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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