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VERONICA ROTH Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
VERONICA ROTH Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.'
'Well,' he says, 'I would onl...
VERONICA ROTH I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.
VERONICA ROTH Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in ...
VERONICA ROTH I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.
VERONICA ROTH The opinions of others cannot damage you.
VERONICA ROTH It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
VERONICA ROTH Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that dama...
VERONICA ROTH She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recogniz...
VERONICA ROTH What do you think they're going to do to us when they find us guilty?" she says after a few minutes ...
VERONICA ROTH What has become clear is that lies are just a temporary solution to a permanent problem. Lying to sp...
VERONICA ROTH I believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another...
VERONICA ROTH Awkwardness aside, it's nice to be liked.
VERONICA ROTH Come thaw my frozen heart, my little arctic kitten.”
Unable to resist, Aria jumped in and pic...
VERONICA ROSSI This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to.
VERONICA ROTH Soft hearts make the universe worth living in.
VERONICA ROTH I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.
VERONICA ROTH But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I thin...
VERONICA ROTH Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
VERONICA ROTH Stop allowing other people's opinion decide what you are going to do. It's not even about them this ...
VERONICA WILKERSON If we had a wide-scale and prolonged freeze, we could have big stock draws and price spikes. There i...
VERONICA SMART Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
VERONICA ROTH I’m not important. Everyone will do just fine without me,” I say.
“Who cares about everyo...
VERONICA ROTH Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged.
VERONICA ROTH Got that gun?” Peter says to Tobias. “No,” says Tobias, “I figured I would shoot the bullets...
VERONICA ROTH People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you und...
VERONICA ROTH His hands shift to my shoulders, and his fingers brush over the edge of my bandage. He pulls back wi...
VERONICA ROTH With four? Doing a little... Addition? Multiplication?
VERONICA ROTH He bends over to untie his shoes. “So, have you been ostracized from your little crowd of devotees...
VERONICA ROTH Why do you say vague things if you don't want to be asked about them?
VERONICA ROTH Sorry, am I being rude?" she asks.
"I'm used to saying whatever is on my mind. Mom used to say ...
VERONICA ROTH Any idiot can stand in front of a target. It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying him....
VERONICA ROTH We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own...
VERONICA ROTH Learning how to think in the midst of fear is a lesson that everyone needs to learn.
VERONICA ROTH Looks like someone had a mood swing.” She rolls her eyes. “Like you don’t want to
know wh...
VERONICA ROTH Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
VERONICA ROTH He told me once to be brave, and though I have stood still while knives spun toward my face and jump...
VERONICA ROTH The truth has a way of changing people's plans.
VERONICA ROTH We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
VERONICA ROTH All three combined is...a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind.
VERONICA ROTH My natural tendency toward sarcasm is still not appreciated.
VERONICA ROTH We all have the potential to do terrible things. But we also have the potential to overcome our mist...
VERONICA ROSSI Lynn, she saved half our faction from this stuff," says Marlene, tapping the bandage on her a...
VERONICA ROTH His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pa...
VERONICA ROTH That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as...
VERONICA ROTH . . . in the distance I hear a train rushing over the rails, but we are moving away from this place ...
VERONICA ROTH How many different kinds of ruin do you have to see, before you resign yourself to calling it all 'r...
VERONICA ROTH She is a woman of muscle twisted around bone.
VERONICA ROTH This concept could easily have gone awry. Stories about love tend to go that way sometimes. They wan...
VERONICA ROTH It's stupid to miss a thing when there are so many people to miss instead, but I miss this train alr...
VERONICA ROTH Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to p...
VERONICA ROTH What did you do?" I scream.
"You die, I die too.
VERONICA ROTH His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like t...
VERONICA ROTH There's a reason why she left them, Lauren," he says. His voice is deep, and it rumbles. "What's you...
VERONICA ROTH I deposited Drew at the infirmary a half hour ago.
VERONICA ROTH I would like to experience this 'date' phenomenon.
VERONICA ROTH And don't call me 'Four', okay? It's nice to hear my name again.
VERONICA ROTH I push open the door just as Tobias, who is sitting on the floor with one leg stretched out, hurls a...
VERONICA ROTH I have a scar - a faint gouge in my knee from when I fell down on the sidewalk as a child. It's alwa...
VERONICA ROTH In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors and leaders and protectors. In them we fi...
VERONICA ROTH I have to get out.
VERONICA ROTH Today you will choose your factions. Until this point you have followed your parents’ paths, your ...
VERONICA ROTH she sighs, then breaks a piece off the muffin in my hand. 'Hey. There are plenty more just five feet...
VERONICA ROTH Dauntless,' he says. 'I was born for Abnegation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming f...
VERONICA ROTH His eyes search the crowd until they find my face. My heartbeat lives in my throat; lives in my chee...
VERONICA ROTH If we stay together, I'll have to forgive you over and over again, and if you're still in this, you'...
VERONICA ROTH Tris," Tobias says, crouching next to me. His face is pale, almost yellow.
There is too much I ...
VERONICA ROTH You die, I die too.
VERONICA ROTH Whoa there, Tobias," says the man to my left. "Weren't you raised a Stiff? I thought the most you pe...
VERONICA ROTH I fit my mouth to his and he tastes like water and smells like fresh air. I drag my hand from his ne...
VERONICA ROTH Come on,'he says.' I have something else to show you.
VERONICA ROTH Why is your heart racing Tris?
VERONICA ROTH You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't...
VERONICA ROTH Your daughter is doing well here. I've been overseeing her training."
Since when does "overseei...
VERONICA ROTH I'll be your family now," he says.
"I love you," I say. (....)
He stares at me. I wait wi...
VERONICA ROTH People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.
VERONICA ROTH Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something ab...
VERONICA ROTH Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actua...
VERONICA ROTH I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.
VERONICA ROTH In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.
VERONICA ROTH All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can...
VERONICA ROTH