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.
VERONICA ROTHGrief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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.
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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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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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“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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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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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 think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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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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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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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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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
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Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
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Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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