“Maybe you were cut out for Candor, Four, because you're a terrible liar.”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The Traitor
“Panic and terror aren't the only kinds of fear. There are deeper kinds, more terrible kinds. Apprehension and heavy, heavy dread.”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The Traitor
“When she’s close enough, she extends her hand. “Hello, my name is Natalie. I’m Beatrice’s mother.” Beatrice. That name is so wrong for her.”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The Traitor
“She's right, she hardly knows me. But still: Her heart is racing.”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The Traitor
“It's over," I say, wincing- she punches harder than she realizes. I ignore the pain and run a hand over her hair, because I'm stupid, and inappropriate, and stupid...”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The Traitor
“I am not a perfect Dauntless member; I am someone who believes that more than one virtue should be prized; I am Divergent.”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The Traitor
“Fear doesn't shut you down, (...) it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating.”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The Traitor
“I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding,”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The Traitor
“I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but opened is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding.”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The Traitor
“She went to get the revolver, which had long since been loaded by a most considerate Providence, and when she held it in her hand, weighty as a phallus in action, she realised she was big with murder, pregnant with a corpse.”
― Jean Genet, quote from Our Lady of the Flowers
“Paddy Eagan, stay away from falling signs for a bit and you'll be as right as rain come the weekend.”
― Elizabeth C. Bunce, quote from A Curse Dark as Gold
“Then what have you proved?” I asked. “Only that people will always try to make a better life for themselves.”
― D.J. MacHale, quote from Raven Rise
“He's like six hundred years younger than you are. I refuse to be the moral compass of our cell! Most weekends I have an intoxispell bong attached to my mouth like a respirator. I love scatological humor, and I list 'pranks involving nuclear waste' and 'making demons eat things' as my hobbies.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Dreams of a Dark Warrior
“Ho Chi Minn’s dictum: “Nothing is more precious than freedom and independence.”
― Harold G. Moore, quote from We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
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