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 ROTHI traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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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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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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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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Resisting is worth doing.
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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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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
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Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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That’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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