I’d rather eat out of a can than be strangled by a faction. Veronica Roth More Quotes by Veronica Roth More Quotes From Veronica Roth But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more. Veronica Roth kissing fall thinking We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear. Veronica Roth preparation fear believe 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. Veronica Roth make-you-think trying thinking You know I'm getting a little tired of waiting for you to catch on. Veronica Roth tired waiting littles Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine. Veronica Roth als pride heart I'll say it one last time: Be brave. Veronica Roth be-brave lasts brave I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us. Veronica Roth going-away wonder love I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers. Veronica Roth badass book people I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become. Veronica Roth desperate mother father It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first. Veronica Roth pain broken hurt I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving through the world. There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand Veronica Roth important mind moving We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves. Veronica Roth shouting believe We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar. I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized. Veronica Roth kissing together hands It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice. Veronica Roth cowardice bullying prove Human reason can excuse any evil. Veronica Roth divergent excuse evil My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem. Veronica Roth four problem names I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap. Veronica Roth cake naps thinking I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me. Veronica Roth like-me enough thinking Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle. Veronica Roth missing-someone sad mother It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else. Veronica Roth tugging embroidery thinking
