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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More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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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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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 keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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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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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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What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
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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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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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