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  • #1
    Veronica Roth
    “Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something."
    "Okay." He laughs shakily in my ear. "Why is your heart racing Tris?"
    I cringe and say, "Well, I...I barely know you. I barely know you and I'm crammed up against you in a box, Four, what do you think?"...
    "Maybe you were cut out for Candor," he says, "because you're a terrible liar.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #2
    Veronica Roth
    “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 smiles at me. "That girl who let someone throw knives at her to spare a friend, who hit my dad with a belt to protect me-that selfless girl, that's not you?"...
    "You've been paying close attention, haven't you?"
    "I like to observe people/"
    "Maybe you were cut out for Candor, Four, because you're a terrible liar.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #3
    Veronica Roth
    “I think he came to die with me," I say. I clamp my hand over my mouth to stifle a sob. If I can keep breathing, I can stop crying. I didn't need or want him to die with me. I wanted to keep him safe. What an idiot, I think, but my heart isn't in it.
    "That's ridiculous," he says. "That doesn't make any sense. He's eighteen; he'll find another girlfriend once you're dead. And he's stupid if he doesn't know that."
    Tears run down my cheeks, hot at first and then cold. I close my eyes. "If you think that's what it's about..." I swallow another sob. "...you're the stupid one.”
    Veronica Roth, Insurgent

  • #4
    Veronica Roth
    “What did you do?” I mumble. He is just a few feet away from me now, but not close enough to hear me. As he passes me he stretches out his hand. He wraps it around my palm and squeezes. Squeezes, then lets go. His eyes are bloodshot; he is pale. “What did you do?” This time the question tears from my throat like a growl. I throw myself toward him, struggling against Peter’s grip, though his hands chafe. “What did you do?” I scream. “You die, I die too” Tobias looks over his shoulder at me. “I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions.”
    Veronica Roth

  • #5
    Veronica Roth
    “Tris," Tobias says, crouching next to me. His face is pale, almost yellow.
    There is too much I want to say. The first thing that comes out is, "Beatrice."
    He laughs weakly.
    "Beatrice," he amends, and touches his lips to mine. I curl my fingers into his shirt.”
    Veronica Roth, Insurgent

  • #6
    Veronica Roth
    “I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice."
    "What Choice?"
    "Dauntless," he says. "I was born Abnegation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But I met her, and... I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision."

    Her.
    Veronica Roth, Insurgent

  • #7
    Veronica Roth
    “It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #8
    Veronica Roth
    “Dauntless,' he says. 'I was born for Abnegation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But then I met her, and...I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision.'
    Her.
    For a moment, it's like I'm looking at a different person, sitting in Tobias's skin, one whose life is not as simple as I thought. He wanted to leave Dauntless, but he stayed because of me. He never told me that.”
    Veronica Roth

  • #9
    Veronica Roth
    “His eyes search the crowd until they find my face. My heartbeat lives in my throat; lives in my cheeks.
    "I still don't understand," he says softly, "how she knew that it would work.”
    Veronica Roth, Insurgent

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #11
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #12
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #13
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #14
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #15
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #16
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #17
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #18
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #19
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #20
    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    Thomas A. Edison

  • #21
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    George Eliot

  • #22
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings



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