We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
VERONICA ROTHPeople, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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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.
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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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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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Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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I feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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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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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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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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My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet.
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I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
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