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 ROTHI’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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I’m sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what’s wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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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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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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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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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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You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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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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Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
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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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