Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
VERONICA ROTHI think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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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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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
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A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. ‘No, Tris,’ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, ‘You look tough as nails.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart.
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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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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It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
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Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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That’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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