I also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
VERONICA ROTHMy name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there’s nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
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What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.
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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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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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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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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 will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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Lies require commitment.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
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Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions.
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