Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
VERONICA ROTHIt 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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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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“Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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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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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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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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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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