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 ROTHDo I look like I’ve been crying?’ I say. ‘Hmm.’ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he’s inspecting my face.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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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’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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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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Lies require commitment.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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You won,” Four mutters. “Stop.” I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes are too wide; they look alarmed.
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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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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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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy 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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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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