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.
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 keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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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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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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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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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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But when a book comes out, it’s just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
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The truth is… you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back…it hurts.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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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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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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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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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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What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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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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