Veronica Roth Quotes - Page 3

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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. “Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.

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  Sleep, Eye, Tunnels

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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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  Bravery, Doe, Way

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• And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.

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  Demand, Want, Sometimes

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.31, HarperCollins UK

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• Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time.

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  Guilt, Next, Teach

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• You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.

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  Strong, Men, Coward

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• I 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.

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  Secret, Armor, Gone

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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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  Thinking, Tugging, Embroidery

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.46, Harper Collins

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• I'm sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what's wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.

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  Sick, Want, Wonder

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• People, even genetically damaged people, make choices. That’s what matters.’

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  What Matters, People, Choices

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• Some people believe that I will go nowhere, and maybe they're right, but maybe they're not.

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  Believe, People

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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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  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

  "Divergent". Book by Veronica Roth (p. 47), 2011.

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• I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

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  Fear, Inspiration, Way

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• 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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  Love, Relationship, Romantic

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

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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. My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.

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  Mother, Things In Life, Community

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• It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.

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  Perfect, Divergent, Alive

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• I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. 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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  Grief, Heart, Breathing

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.34, HarperCollins UK

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• You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.

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  Inspirational, Believe, Belief

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• No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.

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  Life, Courage, Real

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• His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate. 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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  Hair, Two, Secret

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• I'll say it one last time: Be brave.

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  Brave, Lasts, Be Brave

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• Reading is such a huge part of my life.

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  Reading, Huge

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• I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.

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  Mother, Father, Desperate

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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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  Thinking, Naps, Cake

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• I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.

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  Thinking, Enough, Like Me

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• Choices can be made again." -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)

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  Choices, Made, Johnson

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