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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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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We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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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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He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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Do I look like I’ve been crying?’ I say. ‘Hmm.’ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he’s inspecting my face.
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Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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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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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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