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.
VERONICA ROTHSometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.
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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.
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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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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He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
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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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The truth is… you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back…it hurts.
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Shh,” I say. “Arms around me.” Obediently, he slips both arms around my waist. I smile at the wall. I am not enjoying this. I am not, not even a little bit, no.
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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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Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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