We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
VERONICA ROTHI gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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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 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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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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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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How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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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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My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
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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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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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