Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
VERONICA ROTHI feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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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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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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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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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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The truth is… you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back…it hurts.
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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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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 think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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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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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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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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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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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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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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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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He stares at me, and I don’t look away. He isn’t a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive.
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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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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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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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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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