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.
VERONICA ROTHBut now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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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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Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
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My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet.
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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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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Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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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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It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she’s gone. She’s gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it’s all I can do.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
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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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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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