I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there’s nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
VERONICA ROTHIt reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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 also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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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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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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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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What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.
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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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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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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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