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.
VERONICA ROTHThe truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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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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I 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.
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It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
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I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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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 suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I’ve done, but I’m sure my list would never be complete.
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I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.
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