I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
VERONICA ROTHTo 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.
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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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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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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she’s gone. She’s gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it’s all I can do.
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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 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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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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You won,” Four mutters. “Stop.” I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes are too wide; they look alarmed.
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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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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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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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
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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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Change, like healing, takes time.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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