At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
VERONICA ROTHTris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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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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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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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I’ve done, but I’m sure my list would never be complete.
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To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
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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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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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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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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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Change, like healing, takes time.
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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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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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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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