It 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.
VERONICA ROTHWithout a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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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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What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?
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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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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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I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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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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Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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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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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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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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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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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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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.
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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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