We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
VERONICA ROTHIt 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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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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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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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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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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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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Lies require commitment.
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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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