His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate.
VERONICA ROTHI am a naturally curious person. -Tris
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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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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But when a book comes out, it’s just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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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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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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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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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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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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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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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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