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 ROTHDauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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I’m sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what’s wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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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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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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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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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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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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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 don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop 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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