Quotes From "Allegiant" By Veronica Roth

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I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me. Veronica Roth
I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if...
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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us. Veronica Roth
I belong to the people I love, and they belong...
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I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could. Veronica Roth
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But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more. Veronica Roth
I love you
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I love you" I say." I love you, too" he says. "I'll see you soon. Veronica Roth
I think you're still the only person sharp enough to...
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I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me. Veronica Roth
We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every...
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We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief. Veronica Roth
I feel like myself, strong and weak at once -...
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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both. Veronica Roth
The person you became with her is worth being.
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The person you became with her is worth being. Veronica Roth
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Yeah, sometimes life really sucks, " she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?" I raise my eyebrows. She raises hers, too, mimicking me." The moments that don't suck, " she says. "The trick is to notice them when they come around. Veronica Roth
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To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself. Caleb's betrayal is something we both carry, and since he did it, all I've wanted is for him to take its weight away from me. I am not sure that I'm capable of shouldering it all myself - not sure that I am strong enough, or good enough. . Veronica Roth
I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start...
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I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose. Veronica Roth
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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true. Veronica Roth
I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others...
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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already. Veronica Roth
Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do...
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Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil. Veronica Roth
It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make...
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It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary. Veronica Roth
People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not...
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People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought. Veronica Roth
Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible...
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Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible faith is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that "something" is a fake bathroom break. Veronica Roth
Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make...
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Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of. Veronica Roth
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You're not very nice, " I say, grinning." You're one to talk."" Hey, I could be nice if I tried."" Hmm." He taps his chin. "Say something nice, then."" You're very good-looking." He smiles, his teeth a flash in this dark. "I like this 'nice' thing. Veronica Roth
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I don't want to die anymore. I am up to the challenge of bearing the guilt and the grief up to facing the difficulties that life has put in my path. Some days are harder than others, but I am ready to live each one of them. I can't sacrifice myself this time. Veronica Roth
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You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward. Veronica Roth
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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 be the last people left. Veronica Roth
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. But sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now. Veronica Roth
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But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters. Veronica Roth
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She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil inside ourselves, so we're able to forgive them. Veronica Roth
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Some days are harder than others, but I am ready to live each one of them. I can't sacrifice myself, this time. Veronica Roth
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My mother wasn't a fool, " I say. "She just understood something you didn't. That it's not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil." I back up another step and say, "She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love, not misplaced disgust for another person's genetics. That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.. Veronica Roth
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Caleb told me that our mother said there was evil in everyone, and the first step to loving someone else is to recognize that evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them. Veronica Roth
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I just wanted to thank you' he says, his voice low.' A group of scientists told you that my genes were damaged, that there was something wrong with me - they showed you the test results that proved it. And even I started to believe it.' He touches my face, his thumb skimming my cheekbone, and his eyes are on mine, intense and insistent.' You never believed it, ' he says 'Not for a second. You always insisted I was.. I don't know, whole. . Veronica Roth
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It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head. Veronica Roth
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I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place whereeverything I’ve ever known is coming apart. I know some things– I know that I’m not alone, that I have friends, that I’m in love. I know where I came from. I know that I don’t want to die, and for me, that’s something–more than I could have said a few weeks ago. . Veronica Roth
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I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart. Veronica Roth
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I hear something in her words that's right, but it's hard to believe her right now. Veronica Roth
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Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here? I want to be. I can. I believe it. Veronica Roth
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I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken. Veronica Roth
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When someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself. Veronica Roth
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I have been able to be kind and pleasant to him because every time I think of what happened in Erudite headquarters, I immediately push the thought aside. But that can't be forgiveness - if I had forgiven him, I would be able to think of what happened without that hated I can feel in my gut, right? Or maybe forgiveness is just the continual pushing aside of bitter memories, until time dulls the hurt and the anger, and the wrong is forgotten. Veronica Roth
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It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do. Veronica Roth
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I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family. And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior Veronica Roth
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It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt." We stay in the silence and the loneliness of the otherwise empty dormitory for a few more minutes, and I try to let her words work themselves into me. Veronica Roth
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I was angry with him before. I’m not really sure why. Maybe I was just angry that the world had become such a complicated place, that I have never known even a fraction of the truth about it. Or that I allowed myself to grieve for someone who was never really gone, the same way I grieved for my mother all the years I thought she was dead. Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and it’s been played on me twice. Veronica Roth
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He still smiles all the time, but now his smiles look like they're made out of water, about to drip down his face. Veronica Roth
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I grabbed hold of my Divergence like it was a hand outstretched to save me. I needed that word to tell me who I was when everything else was coming apart around me. 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 be friends or lovers or siblings, defined instead by the choices we make and the love and loyalty that binds us. Veronica Roth
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Sometimes I feel like we are the same, but sometimes, like right now, I feel the separation between our personalities like I've just run into a wall. Veronica Roth
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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. Veronica Roth
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When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but warm, and then she stood before me, short and thin and plain and in all ways unremarkable- except that she had jumped first. The stiff had jumped first. Even I didn't jump first. Her eyes were so stern, so insistent. Beautiful. Veronica Roth
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It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks Veronica Roth
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I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no choice in the matter afterward. And maybe that’s true of beginnings, but it’s not true of this, now. I fell in love with him. But I don’t just stay with him by default as if there’s no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me. Veronica Roth
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I like to hurt people too. I can make the cruelest choice. The difference is, sometimes I don't, and you always do, and that makes you evil. Veronica Roth