I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
VERONICA ROTHI think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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.
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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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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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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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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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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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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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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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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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Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
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The truth is… you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back…it hurts.
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Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
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We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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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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It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she’s gone. She’s gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it’s all I can do.
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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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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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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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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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Change, like healing, takes time.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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