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 I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different. Veronica Roth divergent different bravery My heart beats so hard it hurts, and I can't scream and I can't breathe, but I also feel everything, every vein and every fiber, every bone and every nerve, all awake and buzzing in my body as if charged with electricity. I am pure adrenaline. Veronica Roth nerves hurt heart She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless. Veronica Roth women truth mother One Choice One Choice, decided your friends. One Choice, defines your beliefs. One Choice, determines your loyalties - Forever. ONCE CHOICE CAN TRANSFORM YOU Veronica Roth loyalty choices forever That said, in the two weeks before I leave for the Dark Days tour, I am going radio silent, which means I will be avoiding the Internet at all costs in order to revise, revise, revise. I will miss you. Tris says hi, though. Veronica Roth dark order mean I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too. Veronica Roth rip dog lying My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldn’t belong there, among people who give without thinking and care without trying. Veronica Roth home people thinking He gives me a conflicted look and touches his lips to my forehead, right between my eyebrows. I close my eyes. I don't understand this, whatever it is. But I don't want to ruin it, so I say nothing. He doesn't move; he just stays there with his mouth pressed to my skin, and I stay there with my hands on his waist, for a long time. Veronica Roth eye hands moving He pulls me over the railing and against his chest, gathering me into his arms, easing an arm under my knees. I press my face into his shoulder, and there is a sudden, hollow silence. Veronica Roth arms silence gathering Two things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. It is my nature to expect the worst of them. And the second is that I am unexpectedly good with computers. Veronica Roth four two people What do I believe? I do not know; I do not know; I do not know. Veronica Roth amor-fati i-believe believe I also don't believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much like an Erudite afterlife to me, all accuracy and no feeling. Veronica Roth feelings life believe What makes you different, makes you dangerous. Veronica Roth dangerous barbie different You know what mom told me once? She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil in ourselves, so we're able to forgive them. Veronica Roth forgiving mom evil His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pass, and the hole will be gone, like when an organ is removed and the body's fluids flow into the space it leaves. Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long. Veronica Roth space gone long It must require bravery to be honest all the time. Veronica Roth divergent honest bravery There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage - in controlling something, period. Veronica Roth damage-is-done divergent periods I hear my heartbeat. I have been looking at him too long, but then, he has been looking back, and I feel like we are both trying to say something the other can't hear, though I could be imagining it. Too long - and now even longer, my heart even louder, his tranquil eyes swallowing me whole. Veronica Roth eye heart long I stare at him. I feel my heartbeat everywhere, even in my toes. I feel like doing something bold, but I could just as easily walk away. I am not sure which option is smarter, or better. I am not sure that I care. Veronica Roth heartbeat toes care I settle into their pace. The uniform pounding of feet in my ears and the homogeneity of the people around me makes me believe that I could choose this. I could be subsumed into Abnegation’s hive mind, projecting always outward. Veronica Roth feet believe people
