A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. ‘No, Tris,’ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, ‘You look tough as nails.
VERONICA ROTHMy 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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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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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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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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Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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