What is wrong with you?' I shake my head. 'Pull it together.' And that's what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up and in like a shoelace. I feel suffocated, but at least I feel strong. Veronica Roth More Quotes by Veronica Roth More Quotes From Veronica Roth The division is based on knowledge, based on qualifications - but as I learned from the factionless, a system that relies on a group of uneducated people to do its dirty work without giving them a way to rise is hardly fair. Veronica Roth giving people dirty Do it fast, you pansycake. Veronica Roth You promised you wouldn't tell her," she says, pointing at me. "What happened to protecting her?" "I changed my mind," I say. Tris laughs, harshly,"That's what you told him, that he would be protecting me? That's a pretty skillful manipulation. Well done. Veronica Roth protecting-her mind laughing 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. Veronica Roth choices people thinking 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. Veronica Roth breakup choices practice Please. They're like the Cult of Four. Veronica Roth cult please four How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts? Veronica Roth broken strong hurt My Tris should look pale and small--she is pale and small, after all--but instead the room is full of her. Veronica Roth should looks rooms She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none. Veronica Roth five choices wanted 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. Veronica Roth love-and-friendship differences together 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. Veronica Roth selfish sacrifice love-you 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. Veronica Roth smart brother mother Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are. Veronica Roth abnegation pride people But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters. Veronica Roth what-matters real lying That dot covers all the places we've ever been. You could cut that piece of land out of the ground and sing it into this ocean and no one would even notice. I feel that fear again, the fear of my own size. 'Right. So?' 'So? So everything I've ever worried about or said or done, how can it possibly matter?' He shakes his head. 'It doesn't.' 'Of course it does,' I say, 'All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter. Veronica Roth cutting ocean land I catch myself thinking 'Thank God For This' out of habit, and then I understand what he's so concerned about. What if my parents' God, their whole belief system, is just something concocted by a bunch of scientists to keep us under control? And not just their beliefs about God and whatever else is out there, about right and wrong, about selfishness? Veronica Roth what-if parent thinking You know what Abnegation used to say about pride?' 'Something unfavorable,I assume.' I laugh.' Obviously. They said it blinds people to the truth of what they are. Veronica Roth pride laughing people The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them. Veronica Roth loving-someone forgiveness evil With four? Doing a little... Addition? Multiplication? Veronica Roth multiplication four littles If we stay together, I'll have to forgive you over and over again, and if you're still in this, you'll have to forgive me over and over again too. So forgiveness isn't the point. What I really should have been trying to figure out is whether we were still good for each other or not Veronica Roth forgive-me forgiving should-have
