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 ROTHI 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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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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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.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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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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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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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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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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