Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love."
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"She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"I touch her cheek to slow the kiss down, holding her mouth on mine so I can feel every place where our lips touch and every place where they pull away. I savor the air we share in the second afterwards and the slip of her nose across mine. I think of something to say, but it is too intimate, so I swallow it. A moment later I decide I don't care. "I wish we were alone," I say as I back out of the cell. She smiles. "I almost always wish that."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"... but in an attack, surviving is an accident. It doesn't take skill to stand in a place where no bullets find you, or to fire into the dark and hit a man you didn't see. It is all luck, or providence, depending on what you believe."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"It’s getting more difficult to be wise,” he says, laughing into my ear. I smile at him. “I think that’s how it’ssupposed to be."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned it from anyone."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"She is a woman of muscle twisted around bone."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"(...) I do want to leave, in the desperate way that an animal wants to escape a trap. Wild and rabid. Ready to gnaw through bone."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"It's not often you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest parts of someone. It's not comfortable when you do."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"I am wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, black shoes--new clothes, but beneath them, my Dauntless tattoos. It is impossible to erase my choices. Especially these."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"It is impossible to erase my choices."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"- It doesn't do anything obvious. But it might be able to do something in here. - Then she touched her hand to her heart. - Beautiful things sometimes do."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"(...) a man encased in ice, his eyes hard and his voice like a frosty exhale."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"But a person can only keep reality - and anger - at bay for so long before the truth comes back again."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my mother, and the pain they bequeathed to me like a family heirloom, handed down from generation to generation.- Tobias Eaton"
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"I like to hurt people too. I can make the cruelest choice. The difference is, sometimes I don't, and you always do, and that makes you evil."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
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