Veronica Roth, Divergent
"I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though."
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"I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though."
Veronica Roth, Divergent
"I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind."
Veronica Roth, Divergent
"I am selfish. I am brave."
Veronica Roth, Divergent
"The tunnel is lit at long intervals, so in the dark space between each dim lamp, I fear that I am lost until a shoulder bumps mine. In the circles of light I am safe again."
Veronica Roth, Divergent
"I close my eyes. I don't expect Four to reassure me, and he makes no effort to, but I feel better standing here than I did out there among the people who are my friends, my faction."
Veronica Roth, Divergent
"I don't want to cry for Edward- at least not in the deep, personal way that you cry for a friend or loved one. I want to cry because something terrible happened, and I saw it, and I could not see a way to mend it."
Veronica Roth, Divergent
"A son says to his Mother: "Mother, today I fought with my friend."His Mother says: "Why did you fight with your friend"Because he demanded something of me, and I would not give it to him."Why did you not give it to him"Because it was mine."My son, you now have possessions, but you do not have your friend. Which would you rather have"My friend."Then give freely, trusting that you will also be given what you need."
Veronica Roth, Divergent
"We believe in bravery. We believe in taking action. We believe in freedom from fear and in acquiring the skills to force the bad out of our world so that the good can prosper and thrive. If you also believe in those things, we welcome you."
Veronica Roth, Divergent
"I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient. There's nothing especially brave about wandering dark streets with no flashlight, but we are not supposed to need help, even from light. We are supposed to be capable of anything. I like that. Because there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready."
Veronica Roth, Divergent
"A brave man acknowledges the strength of others."
Veronica Roth, Divergent
"You won’t shoot me."People tend to overestimate my character," I say quietly. "They think that because I’m small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can’t possibly be cruel. But they’re wrong."
Veronica Roth, Divergent
"There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage-in controlling something, period."
Veronica Roth, Divergent
"Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes."
Veronica Roth, Divergent
"I wish I could tell him that we’re going through the same thing. I wish I could speak to him like I want to instead of like I’m supposed to. But the idea of admitting that I need help is too much to bear, so I turn away."
Veronica Roth, Divergent
"Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle."
Veronica Roth, Divergent
"It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first."
Veronica Roth, Divergent
"I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free."
Veronica Roth, Divergent
"Human reason can excuse any evil."
Veronica Roth, Divergent
"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."
Veronica Roth, Divergent
"I clench my teeth as tears come. I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them. ~ 'Tris"
Veronica Roth, Divergent
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