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08c263b	Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine.		Veronica Roth
dd461a3	My dear girl. I am his family. I am permanent. You are only temporary.		Veronica Roth
8335c5c	But I think that no matter how smart, people usually see what they're already looking for, that's all.	smart	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
7298f63	I'm sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what's wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.		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
44bcbb2	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.	love intimacy	Veronica Roth
7542d04	This is what I wanted most to avoid: for my rises and falls to become Tobias's rises and falls. That's why I can't let him step in to defend me now.		Veronica Roth
63e5c95	To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself. Caleb's betrayal is something we both carry, and since he did it, all I've wanted is for him to take its weight away from me. I am not sure that I'm capable of shouldering it all myself - not sure that I am strong enough, or good enough.	inspirational	Veronica Roth
b49987b	I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.	love tris tobias	Veronica Roth
014381e	I ignore my fear. When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist.		Veronica Roth
a5af16f	Soft hearts make the universe worth living in.	universe heart love girl cute	Veronica Roth
9e08295	I can't tell him I need him. I can't need him, period -- or really, we can't need each other, because who knows how long either of us will last in this war?		Veronica Roth
916ae3d	There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.	bravery divergent inspirtational	Veronica Roth
aa4652c	They try to make you think they care about what you do but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you won't pose a threat to them.		Veronica Roth
0df0cb1	She tips her chin up and looks at me with that Abnegation stubbornness I know so well. She may have left them, but they are what's making her strong.		Veronica Roth
1f8a5f9	It is impossible to erase my choices.	tris tobias impossible	Veronica Roth
6156db8	Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.		Veronica Roth
dd88882	I breathe in. The water will wash my wounds clean. I breathe out. My mother submerged me in water when I was a baby, to give me to God. It has been a long time since I thought about God, but I think about him now. It is only natural. I am glad, suddenly, that I shot Eric in the foot instead of the head.	religion dying	Veronica Roth
a5e7423	He touches my face, covering my cheeks with his hands, sliding his fingertips down my neck, fitting his fingers to the slight curve of my hips. I can't stop.		Veronica Roth
20c3eed	Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.	skies tris tobias eyes	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
157f11e	Some people will always fear change. But we can't indulge them.	fear	Veronica Roth
d3782ec	Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human		Veronica Roth
d070a96	I decide to keep the shirt to remind me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.		Veronica Roth
0897e34	I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.	difficult tobias peter hard	Veronica Roth
7794818	It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.	remortgages guilt	Veronica Roth
9780fe2	Don't pretend", I say Breathily. "You know I'm not. I'm not ugly, but I am certainly not pretty." "Fine. You're not pretty. So?" He kisses my cheek. "I like how you look. You're deadly smart. You're brave."		Veronica Roth
a2f136c	I know some things--I know that I'm not alone, that I have friends, that I'm in love. I know that I don't want to die, and for me that's something--more than I could have said a few weeks ago.		Veronica Roth
a9931f4	You sadistic pansycake.		Veronica Roth
91eae4e	Someone shouts, "Enough!" and I think too much and nothing at all."		Veronica Roth
008888b	I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family. And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior	grief loss love	Veronica Roth
9013a62	It's like he knows, he knows I have a thing for her.		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
d3f3f5b	Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.		Veronica Roth
be51dcc	His eyes search the crowd until they find my face. My heartbeat lives in my throat; lives in my cheeks. "I still don't understand," he says softly, "how she knew that it would work."	love tobias-eaton simulation tris-prior	Veronica Roth
1abe652	What?" I ask. "I'm developing a theory." "And it is?" She picks up her hamburger, grins, and says, "That you have a death wish."		Veronica Roth
d074ce4	How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me -- the boy whose real name is powerful enough to keep us alive in a train car full of enemies?		Veronica Roth
4f69a61	Resisting is worth doing.	the-transfer dystopian resistance	Veronica Roth
2a07b55	The man running toward me is not a man, he is a boy. A shaggy-haired boy with a crease between his eyebrows. Will. Dull-eyed and mindless, but still Will. He stops running and mirrors me, his feet planted and his gun up. In an instant, I see his finger poised over the trigger and hear the bullet slide into the chamber, and I fire. My eyes squeezed shut. Can't breathe. The bullet hit him in the head. I know because that's where I aimed it.		Veronica Roth
2e3a2d6	Faction before blood.		Veronica Roth
3d4f65d	I want some kind of reminder that while wounds heal, they don't disappear forever- I carry them everywhere, always, and that is the way of things, the way of scars.		Veronica Roth
472b730	I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.		Veronica Roth
05aeba3	He is a part of me, always will be, and I am a part of him, too. I don't belong to Abnegation, or Dauntless, or even the Divergent. I don't belong to the Bureau or the experiment or the firnge. I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me- they, and the love and loyalty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could. I love my brother. I love him, and he is quaking with terror at the though of death. I love..		Veronica Roth

Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine.

Veronica Roth

dd461a3

My dear girl. I am his family. I am permanent. You are only temporary.

Veronica Roth

8335c5c

But I think that no matter how smart, people usually see what they're already looking for, that's all.

smart

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

7298f63

I'm sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what's wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.

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

44bcbb2

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.

love intimacy

Veronica Roth

7542d04

This is what I wanted most to avoid: for my rises and falls to become Tobias's rises and falls. That's why I can't let him step in to defend me now.

Veronica Roth

63e5c95

To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself. Caleb's betrayal is something we both carry, and since he did it, all I've wanted is for him to take its weight away from me. I am not sure that I'm capable of shouldering it all myself - not sure that I am strong enough, or good enough.

inspirational

Veronica Roth

b49987b

I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.

love tris tobias

Veronica Roth

014381e

I ignore my fear. When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist.

Veronica Roth

a5af16f

Soft hearts make the universe worth living in.

universe heart love girl cute

Veronica Roth

9e08295

I can't tell him I need him. I can't need him, period -- or really, we can't need each other, because who knows how long either of us will last in this war?

Veronica Roth

916ae3d

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.

bravery divergent inspirtational

Veronica Roth

aa4652c

They try to make you think they care about what you do but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you won't pose a threat to them.

Veronica Roth

0df0cb1

She tips her chin up and looks at me with that Abnegation stubbornness I know so well. She may have left them, but they are what's making her strong.

Veronica Roth

1f8a5f9

It is impossible to erase my choices.

tris tobias impossible

Veronica Roth

6156db8

Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.

Veronica Roth

dd88882

I breathe in. The water will wash my wounds clean. I breathe out. My mother submerged me in water when I was a baby, to give me to God. It has been a long time since I thought about God, but I think about him now. It is only natural. I am glad, suddenly, that I shot Eric in the foot instead of the head.

religion dying

Veronica Roth

a5e7423

He touches my face, covering my cheeks with his hands, sliding his fingertips down my neck, fitting his fingers to the slight curve of my hips. I can't stop.

Veronica Roth

20c3eed

Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.

skies tris tobias eyes

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

157f11e

Some people will always fear change. But we can't indulge them.

fear

Veronica Roth

d3782ec

Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human

Veronica Roth

d070a96

I decide to keep the shirt to remind me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.

Veronica Roth

0897e34

I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.

difficult tobias peter hard

Veronica Roth

7794818

It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.

remortgages guilt

Veronica Roth

9780fe2

Don't pretend", I say Breathily. "You know I'm not. I'm not ugly, but I am certainly not pretty." "Fine. You're not pretty. So?" He kisses my cheek. "I like how you look. You're deadly smart. You're brave."

Veronica Roth

a2f136c

I know some things--I know that I'm not alone, that I have friends, that I'm in love. I know that I don't want to die, and for me that's something--more than I could have said a few weeks ago.

Veronica Roth

a9931f4

You sadistic pansycake.

Veronica Roth

91eae4e

Someone shouts, "Enough!" and I think too much and nothing at all."

Veronica Roth

008888b

I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family. And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior

grief loss love

Veronica Roth

9013a62

It's like he knows, he knows I have a thing for her.

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

d3f3f5b

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

Veronica Roth

be51dcc

His eyes search the crowd until they find my face. My heartbeat lives in my throat; lives in my cheeks. "I still don't understand," he says softly, "how she knew that it would work."

love tobias-eaton simulation tris-prior

Veronica Roth

1abe652

What?" I ask. "I'm developing a theory." "And it is?" She picks up her hamburger, grins, and says, "That you have a death wish."

Veronica Roth

d074ce4

How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me -- the boy whose real name is powerful enough to keep us alive in a train car full of enemies?

Veronica Roth

4f69a61

Resisting is worth doing.

the-transfer dystopian resistance

Veronica Roth

2a07b55

The man running toward me is not a man, he is a boy. A shaggy-haired boy with a crease between his eyebrows. Will. Dull-eyed and mindless, but still Will. He stops running and mirrors me, his feet planted and his gun up. In an instant, I see his finger poised over the trigger and hear the bullet slide into the chamber, and I fire. My eyes squeezed shut. Can't breathe. The bullet hit him in the head. I know because that's where I aimed it.

Veronica Roth

2e3a2d6

Faction before blood.

Veronica Roth

3d4f65d

I want some kind of reminder that while wounds heal, they don't disappear forever- I carry them everywhere, always, and that is the way of things, the way of scars.

Veronica Roth

472b730

I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.

Veronica Roth

05aeba3

He is a part of me, always will be, and I am a part of him, too. I don't belong to Abnegation, or Dauntless, or even the Divergent. I don't belong to the Bureau or the experiment or the firnge. I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me- they, and the love and loyalty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could. I love my brother. I love him, and he is quaking with terror at the though of death. I love..

Veronica Roth