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.
VERONICA ROTHI didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
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No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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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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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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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
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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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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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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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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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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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