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 ROTHYou believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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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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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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But when a book comes out, it’s just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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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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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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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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Change, like healing, takes time.
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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 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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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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