A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. ‘No, Tris,’ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, ‘You look tough as nails.
VERONICA ROTHPart of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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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’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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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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I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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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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We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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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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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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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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