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.
VERONICA ROTHI 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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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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That’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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He stares at me, and I don’t look away. He isn’t a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive.
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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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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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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
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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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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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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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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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