It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
VERONICA ROTHIn that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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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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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.
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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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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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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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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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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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“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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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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