My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
VERONICA ROTHI want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
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To 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.
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We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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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 didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
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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 don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
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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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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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