She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none.
Veronica RothTags: choice
It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
Veronica RothTags: words sentences phrases painful
That is how it feels. Like everything between us is twisted together, friendship and love and family, so I can't tell the difference between any of them.
Veronica RothAbout when to let others sacrifice themselves for you, even if its selfish. They say that if the sacrifice is the ultimate way for that person to show you that they love you, let them do it.
Veronica RothI felt like I was being eaten alive by guilt, and what I needed what your patience and your kindness, not for you to yell at me.
Veronica RothWhen I look at him, I don't see the cowardly young man who sold me out to Jeanine Matthews, and i don't hear the excuses he gave afterward.
When I look at him, I see the boy who held my hand in the hospital when our mother broke her wrist and told me it would be all right. I see the brother who told me to make my own choices, the night before the Choosing Ceremony. I think of all the remarkable things he is--smart and enthusiastic and observant, quiet and earnest and kind.
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 RothTags: allegiant
I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Because inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains towards freedom, toward Tobias, and, above all, toward life.
Veronica RothIt smells green, the way a leaf does when you tear it in half.
Veronica RothIs this Prior?"
"In the flesh."
"Why's he bleeding?"
"Because he's an idiot."
Zeke offers me a black jacket with a factionless symbol stitched into the collar. "I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose."
I wrap the jacket around Caleb's shoulders and fasten one of the buttons over his chest. He avoids my eyes.
"I think it's a new phenomenon.", I say.
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