I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
VERONICA ROTHIt doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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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.
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To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community.
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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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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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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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He stares at me, and I don’t look away. He isn’t a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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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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I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
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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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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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