“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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More Veronica Roth Quotes
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We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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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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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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Shh,” I say. “Arms around me.” Obediently, he slips both arms around my waist. I smile at the wall. I am not enjoying this. I am not, not even a little bit, no.
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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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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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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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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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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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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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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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