Top 39 Insurgent Veronica Roth Quotes
#2. What did you do?" I scream.
"You die, I die too.
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#3. Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion.
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#4. So you're her brother? Says Linn. I guess we know who got the good genes.
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#5. One thing I know: For helping me forget how awful the world is, I prefer her to alcohol.
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#6. She screams at the top of her lungs, a sound that turns my blood into fire.
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#7. Don't tell me you're going to eat a mashed-potato sandwich
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#8. Despite the fact that we climbed a few flights of stairs, I still feel like I'm plunging to the earth.
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#9. It's not often real that you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest part of someone. It's not comfortable what you do.
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#10. You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?
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#12. What is wrong with you?' I shake my head. 'Pull it together.'
And that's what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up and in like a shoelace. I feel suffocated, but at least I feel strong.
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#13. I also don't believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much like an Erudite afterlife to me, all accuracy and no feeling.
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#15. Behind her, the door to the stairwell opens, and Tobias steps out with Marcus and Caleb behind him, almost unnoticed.
Almost, except I notice him, because I have trained myself to notice him.
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#16. We may both be bad, but there's a huge difference between us - I'm not content with being this way.
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#17. But now I know how large the world is ... Well. I suppose I have grown to large out of my faction. As a consequence.
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#18. Some people believe that I will go nowhere, and maybe they're right, but maybe they're not.
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#19. Leave her out of this"
"Why? Because you're doing her? Oh wait, I forgot. Stiffs don't do that sort of thing
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#20. The tiles in the Merciless Mart are always black and white, and here they are in a checkered pattern. If I unfocus my eyes, I see exactly what the Candor don't believe in - gray.
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#21. Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles, like he is surprised you bothered to look at him in the first place.
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#22. Which means that in order to defeat her, I have to think of a way to defeat myself. And how can I be a better fighter than myself, if she knows the same strategies I know, and is exactly as resourceful and clever as I am?
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#23. If I unfocus my eyes, I see exactly what the Candor don't believe in-gray. Maybe Tobias and I don't believe in it either. Not really.
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#24. One Choice, Breaks free of his past
One Choice, Embraces his future
One Choice, Exposes the dangers
One Choice, Changes him- forever
One Choice will free him
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#25. By the time we leave, I have red lips and curled eyelashes, and I'm wearing a bright red dress. And there's a knife strapped to the inside of my knee. This all makes perfect sense.
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#27. Tris," he says. "What did they do to you? You're acting like a lunatic."
"That's not very nice of you to say," I say. "They put me in a good mood, that's all. And now I really want to kiss you, so if you could just relax-
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#28. Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it.
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#29. Sometimes I still forget to look for the gentler parts of her. For so long all I saw was the strength, standing out like the wiry muscles in her arms or the black ink marking her collarbone with flight.
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#30. Oh, so it's not enough that I told you; it has to be in the right setting?" I raise my eyebrows. "Next time should I brew some tea and make sure the lighting is right too?
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#31. Instead I take the lead, Tobias silent at my side, and though he does not touch me, he steadies me.
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#33. He holds my face in both hands and kisses me back. I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored-for good, I hope.
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#34. In 'Insurgent' we realise how large the world really is
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#35. I'm not Dauntless - I'm Divergent. I am whatever I choose to be.
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#36. But then he stops at the door frame and says, It's 9:24. Telling me the time is a small act of betrayal-and therefore an ordinary act of bravery. It is maybe the first time I've seen Peter be truly Dauntless.
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#37. I pout my lower lip for a second, but then I grin as the pieces come together.
"That's why you like me!" I exclaim. "Because you're not very nice either! It makes so much more sense now.
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#38. Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.
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#39. And what this is, I realize, is life. I don't want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I've been trying to claw my way back to them, and now I am so close and he is telling me not to.
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