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Veronica Roth Quotes - Page 10

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Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human

Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human

World, Ability, Humans

To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself. Caleb's betrayal is something we both carry, and since he did it, all I've wanted is for him to take its weight away from me. I am not sure that I'm capable of shouldering it all myself - not sure that I am strong enough, or good enough.

Strong, Pain, Betrayal

Everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.

Kissing, Scream, Glances

If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him.

Want, Tobias, Ifs

In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.

Grief, Movement, Helping

He should be the one to die, part of me thinks. I don't want to lose him, another part argues. I don't know which part to believe.

Believe, Thinking, Want

I used to think about giving my life up for things, but I didn't understand what 'giving your life' really was until it was right there, about to be taken from me

Taken, Thinking, Giving

Veronica Roth (2015). “Allegiant Collector's Edition”, p.17, HarperCollins

I was still afraid of him, I knew, but in a different way - I was no longer a child, afraid of the threat my terrifying father posed to my safety. I was a man, afraid of the threat he posed to my character, to my future, to my identity.

Children, Father, Character

I forget that he is another person; instead it feels like he is another part of me, just as essential as a heart or an eye or an arm.

Eye, Heart, Arms

I am too strong to break so easily, and I become better, sharper, every time I touch him.

Strong, Break

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.

Tattoo, Blue, Jeans

Veronica Roth (2013). “Allegiant (Divergent, Book 3)”, p.20, HarperCollins UK

Ignore them. They don't know what it is to make a difficult decision." "You wouldn't have done it, I bet." "That is only because I have been taught to be cautious when I don't know all the information, and you have been taught that risks can produce great rewards.

Decision, Risk, Done

I imagine the wave of water colliding with the rock and spilling over the tile floor, collecting around my shoes. Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but I feel like when you believe that something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can’t help yourself.

Believe, Rocks, Shoes

The person you became with her is worth being.

Tobias, Persons

Yes," she says, her eyes bright with tears. "My dear child, you've done so well.

Children, Eye, Tears

It's what you deserve to hear," I say firmly, my eyes going cloudy with tears. "That you're whole, that you're worth loving, that you're the best person I've ever known.

Eye, Tears, What You Deserve

It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.

Grief, Perfect, Guilt

I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.

Mean, Broken, Tobias

Veronica Roth (2013). “Allegiant (Divergent Trilogy, Book 3)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.

Eye, Thinking, Sky

Veronica Roth (2013). “Allegiant (Divergent Trilogy, Book 3)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

She believes that Tobias belongs to her now. She doesn't know the truth, that he belongs to himself.

Believe, Tobias, Knows

Veronica Roth (2013). “Allegiant (Divergent Trilogy, Book 3)”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

It is impossible to erase my choices.

Choices, Impossible, Tobias

Veronica Roth (2015). “Allegiant Collector's Edition”, p.15, HarperCollins

Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities.

Dating, Chaos, Possibility

Veronica Roth (2015). “Allegiant Collector's Edition”, p.16, HarperCollins

She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love.

Worry, Tobias, Stills

Veronica Roth (2015). “Allegiant Collector's Edition”, p.21, HarperCollins

And I provide much- needed eye candy.

Eye, Needed, Eye Candy

Veronica Roth (2015). “Allegiant Collector's Edition”, p.29, HarperCollins

I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.

Trying, Overcoming, Needs

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