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Veronica Roth Quotes - Page 21

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But now I’m wondering if I need it anymore, if we ever really need these words, “Dauntless,” “Erudite,” “Divergent,” “Allegiant,” or if we can just be friends or lovers or siblings, defined instead by the choices we

But now I’m wondering if I need it anymore, if we ever really need these words, “Dauntless,” “Erudite,” “Divergent,” “Allegiant,” or if we can just be friends or lovers or siblings, defined instead by the choices we make and the love and loyalty that binds us.

Loyalty, Sibling, Choices

Is this Prior?" "In the flesh." "Why's he bleeding?" "Because he's an idiot." Zeke offers me a black jacket with a factionless symbol stitched into the collar. "I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose." I wrap the jacket around Caleb's shoulders and fasten one of the buttons over his chest. He avoids my eyes. "I think it's a new phenomenon.", I say.

Eye, Thinking, People

May the peace of God be with you," she says, her voice low, "even in the midst of trouble." "Why would it?" I say softly, so no one else can hear. "After all I've done..." "It isn't about you," she says. "It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.

Voice, Done, May

My father has a way of persuading people without charm that has always confused me. He states his opinions as if they’re facts, and somehow his complete lack of doubt makes you believe him. That quality frightens me now, because I know what he told me: that I was broken, that I was worthless, that I was nothing. How many of those things did he make me believe?

Confused, Father, Believe

He bends over to untie his shoes. “So, have you been ostracized from your little crowd of devotees?” “No,” I say automatically. Then I add, “Maybe. But they aren’t my devotees.” “Please. They’re like the Cult of Four.” I can’t help but laugh. “Jealous? Wish you had a Cult of Psychopaths to call your very own?

Jealous, Shoes, Laughing

Abnegation produces deeply serious people. People who automatically see things like need,” he says. “I’ve noticed that when people switch to Dauntless, it creates some of the same types. Erudite who switch to Dauntless tend to turn cruel and brutal. Candor who switch to Dauntless tend to become boisterous, fight-picking adrenaline junkies. And Abnegation who switch to Dauntless become . . . I don’t know, soldiers, I guess. Revolutionaries.

Fighting, People, Soldier

They try to make you think they care about what you do but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you won't pose a threat to them.

Thinking, Make You Think, Trying

I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did. I don't.

Wish, Guilt, Guilty

It's Not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil.

Sacrifice, Evil, Giving

When I look at him, I don't see the cowardly young man who sold me out to Jeanine Matthews, and i don't hear the excuses he gave afterward. When I look at him, I see the boy who held my hand in the hospital when our mother broke her wrist and told me it would be all right. I see the brother who told me to make my own choices, the night before the Choosing Ceremony. I think of all the remarkable things he is--smart and enthusiastic and observant, quiet and earnest and kind.

Mother, Brother, Smart

About when to let others sacrifice themselves for you, even if its selfish. They say that if the sacrifice is the ultimate way for that person to show you that they love you, let them do it.

Selfish, Love You, Sacrifice

I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no choice in the matter afterward. And maybe that's true of beginnings, but it's not true of this, now.

Thinking, People, Choices

Oh, are we at the insult part of the breakup?" she says. "Because I got in a lot of practice after what happened with Will. I have several choice things to say about her nose.

Breakup, Practice, Choices

It's then that I realize: Of course Tris would go into the Weapons Lab instead of Caleb. Of course she would.

Labs, Weapons, Realizing

Please. They're like the Cult of Four.

Four, Cult, Please

I am a child. I am two feet tall, and asking if she loves me.

Children, Two, Feet

Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up

Fear, Divergent, Wakes You

"Divergent". www.imdb.com. 2014.

My Tris should look pale and small--she is pale and small, after all--but instead the room is full of her.

Rooms, Looks, Should

Veronica Roth (2015). “Allegiant Collector's Edition”, p.8, HarperCollins

She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none.

Choices, Wanted, Five

Veronica Roth (2013). “Allegiant (Divergent Trilogy, Book 3)”, p.27, HarperCollins UK

That is how it feels. Like everything between us is twisted together, friendship and love and family, so I cant tell the difference between any of them.

Differences, Together, Love And Friendship

I feel empty, not because of sadness, but because of relief, all the tension flowing out of me.

Sadness, Relief, Empty

And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her.

Boys, Doe, Kind

Since he saved me from the attack, I have associated his smell with safety, so as long as I focus on it, I feel safe now.

Smell, Long, Safety

Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words "Thank you for your honesty" at different volumes and pitches, and my anger begins to dissolve.

Honesty, Different, Phrases

It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.

Desire, Cruelty

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