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.
VERONICA ROTHI’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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Lies require commitment.
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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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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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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 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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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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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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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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His 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.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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He stares at me, and I don’t look away. He isn’t a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive.
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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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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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