It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
VERONICA ROTHNot writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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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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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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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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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.
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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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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.
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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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The truth is… you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back…it hurts.
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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 keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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