It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
VERONICA ROTHPride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I’ve done, but I’m sure my list would never be complete.
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Lies require commitment.
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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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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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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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Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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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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I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there’s nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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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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