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Veronica Micle

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VERONICA ROTH
People tend to overestimate my character," I say quietly. "They think that because I'm small, or a g...
VERONICA ROTH
You think giving you a hug would give away too much?" he says.
"You know," I say. "I really don...
VERONICA ROTH
One Choice

One Choice, decided your friends.

One Choice, defines your beliefs....
VERONICA ROTH
Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.
VERONICA ROTH
You know, most boys would enjoy being trapped in close quarters with a girl." I roll my eyes.
"...
VERONICA ROTH
I feel his heartbeat against my cheek,as fast as my own.
"Are you afraid of me, too, Tobias?" VERONICA ROTH
Somewhere inside me is a merciful, forgiving person. Somewhere there is a girl who tries to understa...
VERONICA ROTH
Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into pl...
VERONICA ROTH
Who cares about pretty? I'm going for noticeable.
VERONICA ROTH
Moths," repeats Will. "You're afraid of moths?"

"Not just a cloud of moths," she says, "...
VERONICA ROTH
Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
VERONICA ROTH
I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless.
I...
VERONICA ROTH
It must require bravery to be honest all the time.
VERONICA ROTH
Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.
VERONICA ROTH
You think my first instinct is to protect you. Because you're small, or a girl, or a Stiff. But you'...
VERONICA ROTH
I am selfish. I am brave.
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