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 ROTHIt reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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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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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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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
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Lies require commitment.
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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When you’re a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that’s really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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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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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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