To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
VERONICA ROTHHis fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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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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I feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
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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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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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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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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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Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
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