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More Quotes by Veronica Roth
Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.
My mother told me once that we can't survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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.
The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel. I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
