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Doe Quotes by Veronica Roth
- I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the…
- If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.
- I ignore my fear,” he says. “When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn’t exist.” I stare at him for a second. I can’t help…
- Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.
- And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her.
- Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
- Can I ask why you’re throwing knives at cheese?’ ‘Caleb came by to discuss something,’ Tobias says, leaning his head against the wall as he…
- I feel like someone is pressing me into a mold that does not fit my body, forcing me intothe wrong shape.
- What do you think they're going to do to us when they find us guilty?" she says after a few minutes of silence have passed.…
- I frown at him. How does he know all this information? And why, after two years of avoiding becoming a Dauntless leader at all costs,…
- Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.
- I used to think that cruelty required malice, but that is not true. Jeanine has no reason to act out of malice. But she is…
- I knew by the way he looked at her that he held her in a higher regard than he held even himself. No selfishness or…
- No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That…
- though he does not touch me, he steadies me.
- We share a common enemy, but does that make us friends?
- Four sits down on the edge of the carousel, leaning against a plastic horse's foot. His eyes lift to the sky, where there are no…
- What do--" Tobias's voice. Tobias! "Oh my God. Oh--" "Spare me your blubbering, okay? Peter says. "She's not dead; she's just paralyzed. It'll only last…
- Your daughter is doing well here. I've been overseeing her training." Since when does "overseeing" include throwing knives at me and scolding me at every…
- 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…
- Just as I have insisted on his worth, he has always insisted on my strength, insisted that my capacity is greater than I believe. And…
- Instead I just let the silence stretch out between us. It's the only adequate response to what he just told me, the only that does…
- Let's just hug already," he says. Keeping one hand firm on Caleb's arm, I wrapped my free arm around Zeke, and he does the same.…
- Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
- But I killed a man just like my mother did. David says it’s okay because I didn’t mean to, and because he was about to…
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