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.
VERONICA ROTHI 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
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His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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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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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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Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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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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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
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