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Veronica Roth Quotes - Page 14

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When i get home, I sit on the front step and take deep breaths of the cool spring air for a few minutes. My mother was the one who taught me to steal moments like those, moments of freedom, though she didn't now it. I

When i get home, I sit on the front step and take deep breaths of the cool spring air for a few minutes. My mother was the one who taught me to steal moments like those, moments of freedom, though she didn't now it. I watched her... But I learned something else from watching her too, which is that the free moments always have to end.

Mother, Spring, Home

What thought or message would you put in a fortune cookie? "Stop reading this. Eat the cookie and live your life.

Reading, Live Your Life, Fortune Cookie

Don’t worry about me handling the pain," I say. "I’ve had a lot of practice.

Pain, Practice, Worry

Veronica Roth (2014). “Four: A Divergent Collection”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

You're the one who has to live with your choice, everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will

Moving, Choices, Matter

Veronica Roth (2013). “The Transfer: A Divergent Story”, p.4, HarperCollins UK

There are no safe rooms, no safe truths, no safe secrets to tell.

Secret, Safe, Rooms

Veronica Roth (2014). “Four: A Divergent Collection”, p.7, Harper Collins

I’m not anyone,” he says. “I’m nobody. That’s what being factionless is.

Divergent Series, Tobias Eaton

Veronica Roth (2014). “Four: A Divergent Collection”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing.

Boys, Trust Me, Resisting

Veronica Roth (2014). “Four: A Divergent Collection”, p.10, Harper Collins

I’d rather eat out of a can than be strangled by a faction.

Factions, Divergent Series, Tobias Eaton

Veronica Roth (2014). “Four: A Divergent Collection”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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.

Parent, Today, Path

Veronica Roth (2014). “Four: A Divergent Collection”, p.24, HarperCollins UK

This is how we came by our factions: Candor, Erudite, Amity, Abnegation and Dauntless." Max smiles. "In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors and leaders and protectors. In them we find our sense of belonging, our sense of community, our very lives.

Teacher, Community, Leader

Veronica Roth (2014). “Four: A Divergent Collection”, p.15, Harper Collins

Sometimes I still forget to look for the gentler parts of her. For so long all I saw was the strength, standing out like the wiry muscles in her arms or the black ink marking her collarbone with flight.

Long, Black, Ink

It's not often real that you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest part of someone. It's not comfortable what you do.

Real, Encounters, Mask

But now I know how large the world is... Well. I suppose I have grown to large out of my faction. As a consequence.

World, Factions, Wells

He is strong, and lithe, and certain. And he is mine.

Strong, Certain, Mines

His hand touches my waist, steadies me. The touch sends a shock through my body, and all my insides burn like his fingers ignited them. I pull close to him, pressing my body against his, and lift my head to kiss him.

Kissing, Hands, Body

I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

Thinking, Space, Secret

Aren’t you going to ask me if I’m all right?” I say. “No, I’m pretty sure you’re not all right.” He shakes his head. “I’m going to ask you not to make any decisions until we’ve talked about it.

Decision, Ask Me, Shakes

I have something to tell you," he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hand 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.

Running, Love You, Hands

There are men with guns up there. When they see me, they will kill me, if they can," I tell my father quietly. I search his eyes. "Should I let them?" He stares at me for a few seconds. "Go," he says, "and God help you.

Father, Eye, Gun

Those who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm.

Water, Calm, Deceiving

Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.44, Harper Collins

I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.

Bravery, Needs, Small Moments

Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one.

Clothes, Vanity, Envy

Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.21, Harper Collins

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.

Peace, Hurt, Boys

Yes," I say. "Three of these flying birds." I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight - toward my heart. One for each member of the family I left behind.

Heart, Bird, Flying

Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent”, p.61, HarperCollins UK

You nearly died today,' he says. 'I almost shot you. Why didn't you shoot me, Tris?' 'I couldn't do that,' I say. 'It would have been like shooting myself.' He looks pained and leans closer to me, so his lips brush mine when he speaks.

Looks, Shooting, Today

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