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Been Quotes by Veronica Roth
- I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different. All your life you've been training to forget yourself, so when you're in…
- Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice.
- I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.
- I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do…
- 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…
- I hear my heartbeat. I have been looking at him too long, but then, he has been looking back, and I feel like we are…
- She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.
- 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…
- I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor…
- 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…
- I am his, and he is mine, and it has been that way all along.
- My name is Tobias Eaton," Tobias says. "I don't think you want to push me off this train." The effect of the name on the…
- I forgot my watch. Minutes or hours later, when the panic subsides, that is what I most regret. Not coming here in the first place…
- How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another.
- Courageous? Courageous would have been admitting weakness and leaving Dauntless, no matter what shame accompanied it. Pride is what killed Al, and it is the…
- She walks away, and I am too stunned to follow her. At the end of the hallways she turns and says, "Have a piece of…
- Uriah looked better than he did an hour ago--he washed the blood from his mouth, and some of the color returned to his face. I'm…
- She'll have to get over it, then. Are you going to let her drop out of Dauntless for a stupid reason like not being able…
- I met him while I was imprisoned," I say, and my voice sounds far away even to me. "I was just curious." "I wouldn't judge…
- Do you know him well?" I ask.I am too curious; I always have been. "Everyone knows Four," she says. "We were initiates together.I was bad…
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