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 You won," Four mutters. "Stop." I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes are too wide; they look alarmed. Veronica Roth sweat eye looks I would be shocked by the lack of security if we were not at Amity headquarters. They often straddle the line between trust and stupidity. Veronica Roth lines stupidity would-be My parents did love each other. Enough to forsake plans and factions. Enough to defy “faction before blood.” Blood before faction--no, love before faction, always. - Tris Prior Veronica Roth parent enough blood I look out the window again, taking slow, deep breaths into a body too tense to move. And as I stare out at the land, I think that this, if nothing else, is compelling evidence for my parents’ God, that our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel. -Tris Prior Veronica Roth our-world moving thinking I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my mother, and the pain they bequeathed to me like a family heirloom, handed down from generation to generation. - Tobias Eaton Veronica Roth pain mother father I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me. Veronica Roth fighting love lying But that wasn´t the first time I ever saw her. I saw her in the hallways at school, and at my mother’s false funeral, and walking the sidewalks in the Abnegation sector. I saw her, but I didn’t see her; no one saw her the way she truly was until she jumped. I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last. Veronica Roth fire mother school That night we push our cots just a little closer together, and look into each other's eyes in the moments before we fall asleep. When he finally drifts off, our fingers are twisted together in the space between the beds. I smile a little, and let myself go. Veronica Roth eye night fall I touch her cheek to slow the kiss down, holding her mouth on mine so I can feel every place where our lips touch and every place where they pull away. I savor the air we share in the second afterwards and the slip of her nose across mine. I think of something to say, but it is too intimate, so I swallow it. A moment later I decide I don't care. "I wish we were alone," I say as I back out of the cell. She smiles. "I almost always wish that. Veronica Roth kissing air thinking I love you," I say. I said that once, before I went to Erudite headquarters, but he was asleep then. I don't know why I didn't say it when he could hear it. Maybe I was afraid to trust him with something so personal as my devotion. Or afraid that I did not know what it was to love someone. But now I think the scary thing was not saying it before it was too late. Not saying it before it was almost too late for me. Veronica Roth scary love-you thinking Just do what you're supposed to. Veronica Roth Can you be a girl for a few seconds?" "I'm always a girl" I frown. "You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girl" I twirl my hair around my finger. "Kay. Veronica Roth girl silly funny A Dauntless Ferris wheel wouldn’t have cars. You would just hang on tight with your hands, and good luck to you. Veronica Roth car good-luck hands How can you fail a test you aren't allowed to prepare for? Veronica Roth failing tests Sarcasm is always at someone's expense. Veronica Roth expenses sarcasm Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long. Veronica Roth tolerate emptiness long I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind. Veronica Roth hate helping thinking The goal of my life isn't just... to be happy. 'Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though? Veronica Roth easier goal ifs I ignore my fear. When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist. Veronica Roth dauntless decision But maybe what I saw as fearless was actually fear under control. Veronica Roth dauntless fearless saws
