Veronica Roth Quotes - Page 22

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• When I look at the Abnegation lifestyle as an outsider, I think it’s beautiful. When I watch my family move in harmony; when we go to dinner parties and everyone cleans together afterward without having to be asked; when I see Caleb help strangers carry their groceries, I fall in love with this life all over again.

  Veronica Roth

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Party

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• I'm going to shoot a muffin off Marlene's head.

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  Muffins

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• I have something I need to tell you," he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and look back at him. "I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though." "That's sensible of you," I say, smiling too. "We should find some paper so you can make a list or a chart or something." I feel his laughter against my side, his nose sliding along my jaw, his lips pressing my ear. "Maybe I'm already sure," he says, "and I just don't want to frighten you." I laugh a little. "Then you should know better." "Fine," he says. "Then I love you.

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Laughter, Love You

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• Who cares about pretty? I'm going for noticeable.

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  Divergent, Who Cares, Dauntless

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Trilogy”, p.48, HarperCollins UK

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• It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (...) But please, when you see an opportunity...ruin them

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  Opportunity, Important, Divergent

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• You think giving you a hug would give away too much?" he says. "You know," I say. "I really don't care." I stand on my tiptoes and press my lips to his. It is the best moment of my life.

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  Thinking, Giving, Hug

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• My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldn’t belong there, among people who give without thinking and care without trying.

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  Home, Thinking, People

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent”, p.53, HarperCollins UK

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• That said, in the two weeks before I leave for the Dark Days tour, I am going radio silent, which means I will be avoiding the Internet at all costs in order to revise, revise, revise. I will miss you. Tris says hi, though.

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  Mean, Dark, Order

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• One Choice One Choice, decided your friends. One Choice, defines your beliefs. One Choice, determines your loyalties - Forever. ONCE CHOICE CAN TRANSFORM YOU

  Veronica Roth

  Loyalty, Choices, Forever

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• I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.

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  Love You, Waiting, Divergent

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• I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent.

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  Air, Divergent, Feels

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• It isn't the height that scares me - the height makes me feel alive with energy, every organ and vessel and muscle in my body singing at the same pitch. Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.

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  Fall, Flames, Singing

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.70, Harper Collins

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• I breathe in. The water will wash my wounds clean. I breathe out. My mother submerged me in water when I was a baby, to give me to God. It has been a long time since I thought about God, but I think about him now. It is only natural. I am glad, suddenly, that I shot Eric in the foot instead of the head.

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  Mother, Baby, Thinking

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• Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community.

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  Things In Life, Community, Important

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• Two things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. It is my nature to expect the worst of them. And the second is that I am unexpectedly good with computers.

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  Two, People, Four

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• What do I believe? I do not know; I do not know; I do not know.

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  Believe, I Believe, Amor Fati

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pass, and the hole will be gone, like when an organ is removed and the body's fluids flow into the space it leaves. Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.

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  Space, Long, Gone

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Divergent Collector's Edition”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• It must require bravery to be honest all the time.

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  Bravery, Divergent, Honest

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage - in controlling something, period.

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  Damage Is Done, Divergent, Periods

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.44, Harper Collins

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• I hear my heartbeat. I have been looking at him too long, but then, he has been looking back, and I feel like we are both trying to say something the other can't hear, though I could be imagining it. Too long - and now even longer, my heart even louder, his tranquil eyes swallowing me whole.

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  Heart, Eye, Long

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• I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.

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  Bravery, Divergent, Different

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• My heart beats so hard it hurts, and I can't scream and I can't breathe, but I also feel everything, every vein and every fiber, every bone and every nerve, all awake and buzzing in my body as if charged with electricity. I am pure adrenaline.

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  Hurt, Heart, Nerves

  "Divergent". Book by Veronica Roth, April 25, 2011.

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• She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

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  Mother, Truth, Women

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• Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.

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  Deception, Packaging, Politeness

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.44, Harper Collins

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• A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.

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  Bravery, Divergent, Lines

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Trilogy”, p.40, HarperCollins UK

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