Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
VERONICA ROTHSorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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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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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
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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.
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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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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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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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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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I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart.
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