Veronica Roth Quotes About Divergent Series
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It must require bravery to be honest all the time.
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Every tattoo I got with them is a mark of their friendship, and almost every time I have laughed in this dark place was because of them. I don’t want to lose them. But I feel like I have already.
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Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.
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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.
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He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife?
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My first instinct is to push you until you break just to see how hard I have to press.
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I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent.
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Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up
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You're not very nice," I say, grinning. "You're one to talk." "Hey, I could be nice if I tried." "Hmm." He taps his chin. "Say something nice, then." "You're very good-looking." He smiles, his teeth a flash in this dark. "I like this 'nice' thing.
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I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.
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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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I have something I need to tell you," he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and look back at him. "I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though." "That's sensible of you," I say, smiling too. "We should find some paper so you can make a list or a chart or something." I feel his laughter against my side, his nose sliding along my jaw, his lips pressing my ear. "Maybe I'm already sure," he says, "and I just don't want to frighten you." I laugh a little. "Then you should know better." "Fine," he says. "Then I love you.
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Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake.
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Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.' 'Well,' he says, 'I would only go if there was cake.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
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Today you will choose your factions. Until this point you have followed your parents’ paths, your parents’ rules. Today you will find your own path, make your own rules.
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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Sometimes I just... want to see it again. Want to see you awake.
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There are no safe rooms, no safe truths, no safe secrets to tell.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
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Fine," he says. "Then I love you.
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You think my first instinct is to protect you. Because you're small, or a girl, or a Stiff. But you're wrong." He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife? My skin tingles at the point of contact, like he's transmitting electricity through his skin. "My first instinct is to push you until you break, just to see how hard I have to press." he says, his fingers squeezing at the word break. My body tenses at the edge in his voice, so I am coiled as tight as a spring, and I forget to breathe.
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Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
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Who cares about pretty? I'm going for noticeable.
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I’m not anyone,” he says. “I’m nobody. That’s what being factionless is.
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I’d rather eat out of a can than be strangled by a faction.
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Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing.
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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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