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Veronica Roth
“Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up”
“Moths," repeats Will. "You're afraid of moths?""Not just a cloud of moths," she says, "like...a swarm of them. Everywhe...
“Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am als...
“You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.”
“May the peace of God be with you,” she says, her voice low, “even in the midst of trouble.”“Why would it?” I say softly...
“Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, th...
“I may be in pain, but I am not weak.”
“Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only drea...
“I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay wi...
“No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.”
“Change, like healing, takes time.”
“I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.”
“It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's ...
“Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glan...
“Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.”
“I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family.And he assured me that he was my family now. -...
“There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger...
“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”
“The person you became with her is worth being.”
“It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.”
“I'll be your family now," he says."I love you," I say. (....)He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms f...
“Tris," he says. "What did they do to you? You're acting like a lunatic.""That's not very nice of you to say," I say. "T...
“It seems like the rebellions never stop, in the city, in the compound, anywhere. There are just breaths between them, a...
“Can you be a girl for a few seconds?""I'm always a girl" I frown."You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girl"I t...
“Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.”
“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 a...
“Be careful, though.""Aren't I always?""No, I think the word for how you usually are is 'reckless.”
“Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it w...
“I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to t...
“I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be...
