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Best Us Quotes by Veronica Roth
- We share a common enemy, but does that make us friends?
- It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But…
- I’d ask you to hang out with us, but you’re not supposed to see me this way.’… ‘What way?’ I ask. ‘Drunk?’ ‘Yeah…well, no.’ His…
- And don't pay attention to Christina. Your face doesn't look that bad." He smiles a little. "I mean, it looks good. It always looks good.…
- Any idiot can stand in front of a target," I say. "It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall is…
- We may both be bad, but there’s a huge difference between us—I’m not content with being this way.
- We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could…
- We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
- I feel the urge, familiar now, to wrench myself from my body and speak directly into her mind. It is the same urge, I realize,…
- Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning…
- I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
- Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
- If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?
- Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now.
- I catch myself thinking 'Thank God For This' out of habit, and then I understand what he's so concerned about. What if my parents' God,…
- Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human
- 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…
- She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none.
- That is how it feels. Like everything between us is twisted together, friendship and love and family, so I cant tell the difference between any…
- 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…
- In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that…
- The reason the factions were evil is because there was no way out of them. They gave us the illusion of choice without actually giving…
- Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage.
- It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
- We all have war inside of us, sometimes it keeps us alive, sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong