Veronica Roth Quotes - Page 5

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• I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving through the world. There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand

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  Moving, Mind, Important

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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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  Writing, People, Interesting

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• I am a naturally curious person. -Tris

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  Curious, Tris, Persons

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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. Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It's my choice.

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  Dog, Eye, Choices

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• In order to have peace, we must first have trust.

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  Order, Firsts

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.23, HarperCollins UK

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• I've done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.

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  Writing, Sleep, Needs

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• I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

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  Weakness, Cowardice, Cruelty

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• Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.

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  Distance, Tobias, Infuriating

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Allegiant (Divergent Trilogy, Book 3)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.

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  Tobias, Being True, Feels

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• She can't possibly be me, though she moves when I move

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  Moving

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent”, p.77, HarperCollins UK

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• Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

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  Sad, Mother, Missing Someone

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• That's what love does. When it's right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.

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  Doe

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• I know that I'll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the teachers and librarians that I interact with.

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  Teacher, Writing, Long

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• The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me.

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  Hate, Fate, People

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• I met him while I was imprisoned," I say, and my voice sounds far away even to me. "I was just curious." "I wouldn't judge him too harshly," says Fernando. "Jeanine can be extraordinarily persuasive to those who aren't naturally suspicious. I have always been naturally suspicious." ... "Yeah," I say. "So have I.

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  Voice, Judging, Sound

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• We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.

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  Fear, Believe, Preparation

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Trilogy”, p.45, HarperCollins UK

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• But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.

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  Fall, Kissing, Thinking

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• For a few minutes we kiss, deep in the chasm, with the roar of water all around us. And we rise, hand in hand, I realize that if we had both chosen differently, we might have ended up doing the same thing, in a safer place, in gray clothes instead of black ones.

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  Kissing, Clothes, Hands

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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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  Dog, Rip, Lying

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• You can't be fearless, remember? Because you still care about things. About your life.

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  Fearless, Care, Remember

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• It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.

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  Ideas, Down And, Size

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• Being honest doesn't mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.

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  Mean, Want, Honest

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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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  Strong, Hurt, Broken

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• Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.

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  Noise, Guilty, Refuge

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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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  Knowledge And Power, Evil, Knowledge Is Power

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