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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More Veronica Roth Quotes
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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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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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Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
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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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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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Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
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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.
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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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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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