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Long Quotes by Veronica Roth
- Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.
- 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…
- His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pass, and the hole will be…
- 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…
- He gives me a conflicted look and touches his lips to my forehead, right between my eyebrows. I close my eyes. I don't understand this,…
- Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.
- He slides his hand over my cheek, one finger anchored behind my ear. Then he tilts his head down and kisses me, sending a warm…
- No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
- Before I chose Dauntless...I felt assured of my long lifespan, if nothing else. Now there are no reassurances except that where I go, I go…
- I kiss him as the train slides into unlit, uncertain land. I kiss him for as long as I want, for longer than I should,…
- 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.…
- You may have succeeded in shutting down the attack simulation, girl, but it was by luck alone, not skill. I would die of shock if…
- 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…
- 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 don't see any elderly people in the crowd. Are there any old Dauntless? Do they not last that long, or are they just sent…
- I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
- Since he saved me from the attack, I have associated his smell with safety, so as long as I focus on it, I feel safe…
- 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…
- 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…
- Why did you do it?" I say. "You want me dead. You were willing to do it yourself! What changed?" He presses his lips together…
- Maybe Dauntless was formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals. But it has strayed far from them. And the same…
- Sometimes I still forget to look for the gentler parts of her. For so long all I saw was the strength, standing out like the…
- I take a deep breath. I'm not sure where that swell of desperation came from, but know that I've acknowledge it, it's impossible to ignore,…
- 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…
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