I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
VERONICA ROTHI 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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But when a book comes out, it’s just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
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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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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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“Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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I also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
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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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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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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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