Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one.
Veronica RothStichwörter: dystopian veronica-roth divergent
Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions. We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
Veronica RothStichwörter: thinking dystopia divergent
I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.
Veronica RothStichwörter: grief
It's when you're acting selflessly that you are at your bravest.
Veronica RothI never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.
Veronica RothIt's easy to be brave when they're not my fears.
Veronica RothHalf of bravery is perspective.
Veronica RothThose who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm.
Veronica RothThere are men with guns up there. When they see me, they will kill me, if they can," I
tell my father quietly. I search his eyes. "Should I let them?"
He stares at me for a few seconds.
"Go," he says, "and God help you.
That is death - shifting from "is" to "was.
Veronica RothStichwörter: death
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