Fear Quotes by Veronica Roth

But maybe what I saw as fearless was actually fear under control.

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It's easy to be brave when they're not my fears.

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“if I always have the sun, maybe I won't be afraid of the dark”

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Fear," she says, "is more powerful than pain.

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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.

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“Fear is more powerful than pain.”

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“How many young men fear that there is a monster inside them?”

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it's not about being fearless, it's about acting in spite of fear

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“Are you afraid of me, too, Tobias?” “Terrified,” he replies with a smile.”

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I want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead.

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“To me there's a difference between not being afraid and acting in spite of fear, as he does.”

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“Welcome to Dauntless! Where you either face your fears and try not to die in the process or you leave a coward”

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Sometimes I feel like there is so much to be afraid of, and sometimes I feel like there is nothing left to…

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“There's a difference between not being afraid and acting in spite of fear.”

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We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.

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

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Looks like someone had a mood swing.” She rolls her eyes. “Like you don’t want to know what his fears are. He…

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I was still afraid of him, I knew, but in a different way - I was no longer a child, afraid of…

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“I stare at him for a second. I can't help it. To me there's a difference between not being afraid and acting…

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You're afraid of heights,'I say. 'How do you survive in the Dauntless compound?' 'I ignore my fear,' he (Four) says. 'When I…

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I ignore my fear,” he says. “When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn’t exist.” I stare at him for a second.…

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I open the door to the fear landscape room and flip open the small black box that was in my back pocket…

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“How many young men fear that there is a monster inside them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves. People are…

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“I'm not sure bravery is something you acquire more of with age, like wisdom --but maybe here, in Dauntless, bravery is the…

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“You think my first instinct is to protect you because you are small or a girl or a stiff, but you are…

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“I have been attacked by crows and men with grotesque faces; I have been set on fire by the boy who almost…

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“Humming a little, she presses another electrode to my forehead and explains, “In some parts of the ancient world, the hawk symbolized…

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“I am almost afraid of him. I don't know what to say or do around the erratic part of him, and it…

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Take away someone’s fear, or low intelligence, or dishonesty . . . and you take away their compassion. Take away someone’s aggression…

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But I understand now what Tori said about her tattoo representing a fear she overcame-a reminder of where she was, as well…

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“You're afraid of heights," I say. "How do you survive in the Dauntless compound?" "I ignore my fear," he says. "When I…

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That dot covers all the places we've ever been. You could cut that piece of land out of the ground and sing…

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“You could just do the work, you know,' I say. 'You could make better decisions, make a better life.' 'Yeah, I could,'…

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“Yeah. I can see what you bring out in him. You don’t know this because you’ve never experienced it, but Four without…

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“Simulation Tobias kisses my neck. I try to think. I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the…

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“You choose this moment to act like the Abnegation?” His voice fills the room and makes fear prickle in my chest. His…

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“Question," says Christina, leaning forward. "The leaders who were watching your fear landscape...they were laughing at something." "Oh?" I bite my lip…

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“Tobias," I say anyway. My hands shake, but not from fear this time– from anger. "Where is he? What are you doing…

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“We believe that cowardice is to blame for the world's injustices. We believe that peace is hard-won, that sometimes it is necessary…

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“Two years ago," she says, "I was afraid of spiders, suffocation, walls that inch slowly inward and trap you between them,getting thrown…

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