My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
VERONICA ROTHWe believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. ‘No, Tris,’ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, ‘You look tough as nails.
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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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We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
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That’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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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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Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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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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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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Lies require commitment.
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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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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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