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Instead Quotes by Veronica Roth
- For a few minutes we kiss, deep in the chasm, with the roar of water all around us. And we rise, hand in hand, I…
- 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…
- He moves his thumb in a slow circle over the back of my hand. It is meant to comfort me, but it frustrates me instead.…
- I should probably be afraid. But instead a hysterical laugh bubbles inside me, because I just remembered something: Maybe I can’t hold a gun. But…
- My body rises with the water. Instead of kicking my feet to stay abreast of it, I push all the air from my lungs and…
- I used to go outside every day and invent these elaborate worlds and scenarios in my head, and when I grew too old for playing…
- I cross my arms. "It was a two minute conversation." "I don't think a smaller time frame makes it less unwise." He furrows his eyebrows…
- I want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead.
- 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…
- I brought you the truth about our city and the reason we are in it. If you aren't thanking me for it, you should at…
- That's the first time I've ever said those words out loud, and now I hear how strange they are. How many young men fear that…
- I forget that he is another person; instead it feels like he is another part of me, just as essential as a heart or an…
- 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…
- It's then that I realize: Of course Tris would go into the Weapons Lab instead of Caleb. Of course she would.
- My Tris should look pale and small--she is pale and small, after all--but instead the room is full of her.
- But now I’m wondering if I need it anymore, if we ever really need these words, “Dauntless,†“Erudite,†“Divergent,†“Allegiant,†or if we can just…
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