If you see someone in trouble, you should help them. Experiment or not. Veronica Roth More Quotes by Veronica Roth More Quotes From Veronica Roth Be brave, Beatrice. I love you. Veronica Roth be-brave brave love-you feel Tobias brushing my hair back before the first simulation. I hear him telling me to be brave. I hear my mother telling me to be brave(...) I am brave. Veronica Roth brave mother hair He smiles in my memory. A curled lip. Straight teeth. Light in his eyes. Laughing, teasing, more alive in memory than I m in reality. It was him or me. I chose me. But I feel dead too. Veronica Roth eye memories reality 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. Veronica Roth girl gun spring Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives. Veronica Roth divergent knives leaving But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else. Veronica Roth new-thought divergent habit 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. Veronica Roth shooting today looks 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. Veronica Roth flying heart bird 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. Veronica Roth hurt boys peace 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. Veronica Roth envy vanity clothes I want to cry because something terrible happened, and I saw it, and I could not see a way to mend it. Veronica Roth saws want way Because there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready for it." (divergent pg.138) Veronica Roth divergent gun hands Someone shouts, "Enough!" and I think too much and nothing at all. Veronica Roth too-much enough thinking Sleep,” he says. “I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.” “With what?” “My bare hands, obviously. Veronica Roth fighting dream sleep I laugh, mirthless, a mad laugh. I savor the scowl on her face, the hate in her eyes. She was like a machine; she was cold and emotionless, bound by logic alone. And I broke her. Veronica Roth mad hate eye So this is where you grew up. Did you like it here? I guess you couldn't have, if you wanted to leave.' CHRISTINA 'I liked some things and hated some things. And there were some things I didn't know I had until I lost them.' TRIS Veronica Roth you-like-it grew-up lost i happen to enjoy categorization. Veronica Roth categorization enjoy happens I'm not Dauntless - I'm Divergent. I am whatever I choose to be. Veronica Roth dauntless insurgent divergent it's not about being fearless, it's about acting in spite of fear Veronica Roth spite fearless acting 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. Veronica Roth smell safety long