Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
VERONICA ROTHDo remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions.
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We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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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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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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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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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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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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