veronica-roth

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8e74265	"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."	funny humor divergent tris veronica-roth	Veronica Roth
d669797	"You think giving you a hug would give away too much?" he says. "You know," I say. "I really don't care." I stand on my tiptoes and press my lips to his. It is the best moment of my life."	four tris tobias veronica-roth	Veronica Roth
bdab018	She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.	sacrifice tris tris-prior veronica-roth	Veronica Roth
1d0fc8d	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.	four tris tobias veronica-roth	Veronica Roth
2d41a02	Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.	insurgent veronica-roth	Veronica Roth
502aa9b	"Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something." "Okay." He laughs shakily in my ear. "Why is your heart racing Tris?" I cringe and say, "Well, I...I barely know you. I barely know you and I'm crammed up against you in a box, Four, what do you think?"... "Maybe you were cut out for Candor," he says, "because you're a terrible liar."	love divergent four tris-prior veronica-roth cute	Veronica Roth
fb9291c	"Yeah, well," I say, "I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be." "That's not entirely true." He smiles at me. "That girl who let someone throw knives at her to spare a friend, who hit my dad with a belt to protect me-that selfless girl, that's not you?"... "You've been paying close attention, haven't you?" "I like to observe people/" "Maybe you were cut out for Candor, Four, because you're a terrible liar."	love divergent four tobias tris-prior veronica-roth	Veronica Roth
d4d02f1	He turns toward me. I want to touch him, but I'm afraid of his bareness; afraid that he will make me bare too. 'Is this scaring you, Tris?' 'No,' I croak. I clear my throat. 'Not really. I'm only...afraid of what I want.' 'What do you want?' Then his face tightens. 'Me?' Slowly I nod.	four tris tobias veronica-roth	Veronica Roth
ff15da2	Sometimes I still forget to look for the gentler parts of her. For so long all I saw was the strength, standing out like the wiry muscles in her arms or the black ink marking her collarbone with flight.	insurgent divergent veronica-roth	Veronica Roth
578e209	His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate. He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.	tris-prior allegiant-quotes veronica-roth	Veronica Roth
8332b30	"I'll be your family now," he says. "I love you," I say. (....) He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms for stability as he considers his response. He frowns at me. "Say it again." "Tobias," I say, "I love you."	family love tobias-and-tris insurgent tobias-eaton four veronica-roth	Veronica Roth
2392fb3	"My name is Four," I say. "Call me 'Stiff' again and you and I will have a problem."	tobias-eaton the-transfer four veronica-roth	Veronica Roth
a5b58aa	It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (...) But please, when you see an opportunity...ruin them	four tobias veronica-roth	Veronica Roth
11e7c1c	"One choice can transform you.	insurgent divergent tris-prior veronica-roth	Veronica Roth
9eca909	"What did you do?" I scream. "You die, I die too."	insurgent tris tobias veronica-roth	Veronica Roth
2d18fa3	I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint.	tobias allegiant-quotes veronica-roth	Veronica Roth
71cda0d	Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.	heroes death life the-traitor tobias-eaton fourtris divergent four tris-prior veronica-roth	Veronica Roth
2b7500e	"Tris," he says. "What did they do to you? You're acting like a lunatic." "That's not very nice of you to say," I say. "They put me in a good mood, that's all. And now I really want to kiss you, so if you could just relax-"	funny tobias-and-tris insurgent tobias-eaton four tris veronica-roth	Veronica Roth
6efc52d	One thing I know: For helping me forget how awful the world is, I prefer her to alcohol.	beatrice-prior insurgent tobias-eaton divergent four tris veronica-roth	Veronica Roth
17f1df6	I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest.	factions tobias veronica-roth	Veronica Roth
a094756	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 dystopian	Veronica Roth
6f3e356	All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.	tobias-eaton four tobias veronica-roth	Veronica Roth
b5658fe	"Don't worry about me handling the pain," I say. "I've had a lot of practice."	tobias-eaton the-transfer four veronica-roth	Veronica Roth
591750c	It's stupid to miss a thing when there are so many people to miss instead, but I miss this train already, and all the others that carried me through the city, my city, after I was brave enough to ride them. I brush my fingers over the car wall, just once, and then jump.	allegiant-quotes veronica-roth	Veronica Roth
ab8b9ee	In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.	tobias-eaton four tobias veronica-roth	Veronica Roth
be49385	We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last people left.	quote tris veronica-roth	Veronica Roth
115ad8b	But now I know how large the world is... Well. I suppose I have grown to large out of my faction. As a consequence.	insurgent allegiant divergent veronica-roth roth	Veronica Roth
c1c2835	"No. Because it's so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?" "And a half," he says."	insurgent pansycake uriah veronica-roth	Veronica Roth
601f2ef	I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe.	tris-and-four divergent four veronica-roth	Veronica Roth
45ba5cb	"One way was Taylorism. Frederick W. Taylor had been a steel company foreman who closely analyzed every job in the mill, and worked out a system of finely detailed division of labor, increased mechanization, and piecework wage systems, to increase production and profits. In 1911, he published a book on "scientific management" that became powerfully influential in the business world. Now management could control every detail of the worker's energy and time in the factory. As Harry Braverman said (Labor and Monopoly Capital), the purpose of Taylorism was to make workers interchangeable, able to do the simple tasks that the new division of labor required--like standard parts divested of individuality and humanity, bought and sold as commodities."	tris-prior allegiant-quotes veronica-roth	Howard Zinn

8e74265

"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."

funny humor divergent tris veronica-roth

Veronica Roth

d669797

"You think giving you a hug would give away too much?" he says. "You know," I say. "I really don't care." I stand on my tiptoes and press my lips to his. It is the best moment of my life."

four tris tobias veronica-roth

Veronica Roth

bdab018

She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.

sacrifice tris tris-prior veronica-roth

Veronica Roth

1d0fc8d

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.

four tris tobias veronica-roth

Veronica Roth

2d41a02

Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.

insurgent veronica-roth

Veronica Roth

502aa9b

"Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something." "Okay." He laughs shakily in my ear. "Why is your heart racing Tris?" I cringe and say, "Well, I...I barely know you. I barely know you and I'm crammed up against you in a box, Four, what do you think?"... "Maybe you were cut out for Candor," he says, "because you're a terrible liar."

love divergent four tris-prior veronica-roth cute

Veronica Roth

fb9291c

"Yeah, well," I say, "I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be." "That's not entirely true." He smiles at me. "That girl who let someone throw knives at her to spare a friend, who hit my dad with a belt to protect me-that selfless girl, that's not you?"... "You've been paying close attention, haven't you?" "I like to observe people/" "Maybe you were cut out for Candor, Four, because you're a terrible liar."

love divergent four tobias tris-prior veronica-roth

Veronica Roth

d4d02f1

He turns toward me. I want to touch him, but I'm afraid of his bareness; afraid that he will make me bare too. 'Is this scaring you, Tris?' 'No,' I croak. I clear my throat. 'Not really. I'm only...afraid of what I want.' 'What do you want?' Then his face tightens. 'Me?' Slowly I nod.

four tris tobias veronica-roth

Veronica Roth

ff15da2

Sometimes I still forget to look for the gentler parts of her. For so long all I saw was the strength, standing out like the wiry muscles in her arms or the black ink marking her collarbone with flight.

insurgent divergent veronica-roth

Veronica Roth

578e209

His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate. He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.

tris-prior allegiant-quotes veronica-roth

Veronica Roth

8332b30

"I'll be your family now," he says. "I love you," I say. (....) He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms for stability as he considers his response. He frowns at me. "Say it again." "Tobias," I say, "I love you."

family love tobias-and-tris insurgent tobias-eaton four veronica-roth

Veronica Roth

2392fb3

"My name is Four," I say. "Call me 'Stiff' again and you and I will have a problem."

tobias-eaton the-transfer four veronica-roth

Veronica Roth

a5b58aa

It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (...) But please, when you see an opportunity...ruin them

four tobias veronica-roth

Veronica Roth

11e7c1c

"One choice can transform you.

insurgent divergent tris-prior veronica-roth

Veronica Roth

9eca909

"What did you do?" I scream. "You die, I die too."

insurgent tris tobias veronica-roth

Veronica Roth

2d18fa3

I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint.

tobias allegiant-quotes veronica-roth

Veronica Roth

71cda0d

Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.

heroes death life the-traitor tobias-eaton fourtris divergent four tris-prior veronica-roth

Veronica Roth

2b7500e

"Tris," he says. "What did they do to you? You're acting like a lunatic." "That's not very nice of you to say," I say. "They put me in a good mood, that's all. And now I really want to kiss you, so if you could just relax-"

funny tobias-and-tris insurgent tobias-eaton four tris veronica-roth

Veronica Roth

6efc52d

One thing I know: For helping me forget how awful the world is, I prefer her to alcohol.

beatrice-prior insurgent tobias-eaton divergent four tris veronica-roth

Veronica Roth

17f1df6

I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest.

factions tobias veronica-roth

Veronica Roth

a094756

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 dystopian

Veronica Roth

6f3e356

All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.

tobias-eaton four tobias veronica-roth

Veronica Roth

b5658fe

"Don't worry about me handling the pain," I say. "I've had a lot of practice."

tobias-eaton the-transfer four veronica-roth

Veronica Roth

591750c

It's stupid to miss a thing when there are so many people to miss instead, but I miss this train already, and all the others that carried me through the city, my city, after I was brave enough to ride them. I brush my fingers over the car wall, just once, and then jump.

allegiant-quotes veronica-roth

Veronica Roth

ab8b9ee

In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.

tobias-eaton four tobias veronica-roth

Veronica Roth

be49385

We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last people left.

quote tris veronica-roth

Veronica Roth

115ad8b

But now I know how large the world is... Well. I suppose I have grown to large out of my faction. As a consequence.

insurgent allegiant divergent veronica-roth roth

Veronica Roth

c1c2835

"No. Because it's so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?" "And a half," he says."

insurgent pansycake uriah veronica-roth

Veronica Roth

601f2ef

I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe.

tris-and-four divergent four veronica-roth

Veronica Roth

45ba5cb

"One way was Taylorism. Frederick W. Taylor had been a steel company foreman who closely analyzed every job in the mill, and worked out a system of finely detailed division of labor, increased mechanization, and piecework wage systems, to increase production and profits. In 1911, he published a book on "scientific management" that became powerfully influential in the business world. Now management could control every detail of the worker's energy and time in the factory. As Harry Braverman said (Labor and Monopoly Capital), the purpose of Taylorism was to make workers interchangeable, able to do the simple tasks that the new division of labor required--like standard parts divested of individuality and humanity, bought and sold as commodities."

tris-prior allegiant-quotes veronica-roth

Howard Zinn