I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
VERONICA ROTHIf I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community.
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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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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. ‘No, Tris,’ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, ‘You look tough as nails.
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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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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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My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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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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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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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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