Top 66 Quotes About Allegiant
#1. We are the Allegiant," the voice replies. "And we are many, yet we are no one. . . .
Veronica Roth
#2. 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 Roth
#3. My heart is the sad fact of time moving irreversibly forward. My heart is a demiurge, freely allegiant, an anchor in the void.
Barry Smolin
#4. I do think that the sense of being opposed to the present moment, that sense of the rub of history, invigorates the writing I find most exciting, and maybe precisely in being equally allegiant to an inward fineness of sensibility and an outward-facing rigor of protest or critique.
Garth Greenwell
#5. I don't know, I guess I agree with them. That if everyone would just keep learning about the world around them, they would have far fewer problems.
Veronica Roth
#6. I should have known, then, that he would gladly trade thousands of GD memories-lives-for control of the experiments. That he would trade them without even thinking of alternatives-without feeling that he needed to bother to save them.
They're damaged, after all.
Veronica Roth
#7. The ability to think isn't exclusive to erudite
Veronica Roth
#8. 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.
Veronica Roth
#9. Caleb and Tris exchange a look. The skin on his face and on her knuckles is nearly the same colour, purple-blue-green, as if drawn with ink. This is what happens when siblings collide - they injure each other in the same way.
Veronica Roth
#10. They'll care for each other, she says. That's what people do. I smile and close my eyes.
Veronica Roth
#11. In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.
Veronica Roth
#12. She sighs, then breaks a piece off the muffin in my hand. 'Hey. There are plenty more just five feet to your right.'
'then you shouldn't be so concerned about losing some of yours.' she says, grinning.
'Fair enough.
Veronica Roth
#13. I feel uneasy. It's not often that you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest parts of someone. It's not comfortable when you do.
Veronica Roth
#14. Christina and I don't speak, but I know our thoughts are the same, fixed on Uriah, on his last breaths.
Veronica Roth
#15. It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
Veronica Roth
#16. Morning," I say.
"Shh," she says. "If you don't acknowledge it, maybe it will go away.
Veronica Roth
#17. Officially, of course, we're all to be treated the same, yes? But that is rarely put into practice.
Veronica Roth
#19. I open the door to the fear landscape room and flip open the small black box that was in my back pocket to see the syringes inside. This is the box I have always used, padded around the needles; it is a sign of something sick inside me, or something brave.
Veronica Roth
#20. For me, it feels like driving from truth into a lie, from adulthood to childhoold. I watch the land of pavement and glass and metal turn into an empty field. The snow is falling softly now, and I can faintly see the city's skyline up ahead, the buildings just a shade darker than the clouds.
Veronica Roth
#21. I prefer to look at it another way-which is that if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever. And it will never change back.
Veronica Roth
#22. I would like to experience this 'date' phenomenon.
Veronica Roth
#23. A husband should not discipline his wife, Johanna says.
Veronica Roth
#24. The minutes I had left with him fall away like dead leaves pulled from branches.
Veronica Roth
#25. Did you just make a joke, Tris? We should have you on painkillers more often if your going to start cracking jokes.
Veronica Roth
#26. I was beginning to feel that I had finally found a place to stay, a place that was not so unstable or corrupt or controlling that I could actually belong there. You would think that I would have learned by now - such a place does not exist.
Veronica Roth
#27. And now that you are out? How does the world seem to you?" he says.
"Mostly the same," I say. "People are just divided by different things, fighting different wars.
Veronica Roth
#28. You're not very nice," I say, grinning.
"You're one to talk."
"Hey, I could be nice if I tried."
"Hmm." He taps his chin. "Say something nice, then."
"You're very good-looking."
He smiles, his teeth a flash in this dark. "I like this 'nice' thing.
Veronica Roth
#29. Everything has changed and it won't stop changing anytime soon.
Veronica Roth
#30. All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
Veronica Roth
#31. I am afraid of her, afraid of what she says-and thrilled by it too, because it means I don't have to accept that I am smaller than I once believed.
Veronica Roth
#32. The Dauthless have the wierdest slang. Pansycake, Nose ... is there a term for The Candor?"
"Of course."Uriah grins."Jerks
Veronica Roth
#33. You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.
Veronica Roth
#34. But now I know how large the world is ... Well. I suppose I have grown to large out of my faction. As a consequence.
Veronica Roth
#35. His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate. He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
Veronica Roth
#36. He wraps his arms around me and holds me tight for a few seconds. His
breaths tickle my ear, and I close my eyes, letting myself finally relax. He
smells like wind and sweat and soap, like Tobias and like safety.
Veronica Roth
#37. If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
Veronica Roth
#38. I glance at Tris. She grins at me, then leans in to whisper something to Christina.
"Are you here to help or what, Stiff?" I say.
Veronica Roth
#39. 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
Veronica Roth
#40. If we stay together, I'll have to forgive you over and over again, and if you're still in this, you'll have to forgive me over and over again too. So forgiveness isn't the point. What I really should have been trying to figure out is whether we were still good for each other or not
Veronica Roth
#41. I like to hurt people too. I can make the cruelest choice. The difference is, sometimes I don't, and you always do, and that makes you evil.
Veronica Roth
#42. I'm going to stop a revolution,' I say. I turn right, and Peter follows me.
Veronica Roth
#43. A weight settles on my shoulders. I knew, of course, that Uriah might never wake up. But the hope that kept the grief at bay is dwindling, slipping away with each word she speaks.
Veronica Roth
#44. I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
Veronica Roth
#46. It's getting more difficult to be wise," he says, laughing into my ear.
I smile at him. "I think that's how it's
supposed to be.
Veronica Roth
#47. With four? Doing a little ... Addition? Multiplication?
Veronica Roth
#49. 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.
Veronica Roth
#50. She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love ... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.
Veronica Roth
#51. If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned it from anyone.
Veronica Roth
#52. You were afraid of shooting people?"
"No," I say. "I was afraid of my considerable capacity to kill."
How many young men fear that there is a monster inside of them?
Veronica Roth
#53. All I want is to become someone new. In this case, Tobias Johnson, son of Evelyn Johnson. Tobias Johnson may have lived a dull and empty life, but he is at least a whole person, not this fragment of a person that I am, too damaged by pain to become anything useful.
Veronica Roth
#54. The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.
Veronica Roth
#56. I find my anger ebbing away, and I'm lost in muffled grief again, this time not just for Tris, but for Uriah, whose smile is burned into my memory. My friend's brother, and then my friend, too, though not for long enough to let his humor work its way into me, not for long enough.
Veronica Roth
#57. He should be the one to die, part of me thinks.
I don't want to lose him, another part argues.
I don't know which part to believe.
Veronica Roth
#58. Caleb," I say, "I love you."
His eyes gleam with tear as he says, "I love you, too, Beatrice.
Veronica Roth
#59. It's stupid to miss a thing when there are so many people to miss instead, but I miss this train already, and all the others that carried me through the city, my city, after I was brave enough to ride them. I brush my fingers over the car wall, just once, and then jump.
Veronica Roth
#60. The steps were crowded with bodies then. Now they are clean and cool, like nothing ever happened here.
Veronica Roth
#61. I take a deep breath. I'm not sure where that swell of desperation came from, but know that I've acknowledge it, it's impossible to ignore, like a living thing has awakened from a long sleep inside me. It writhes in my stomach and throat. I need to leave. I need the truth.
Veronica Roth
#62. He's one of the last friends I have," she says, her voice breaking. "I don't know if I'll ever be able to look at you the same way again.
Veronica Roth
#63. We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last people left.
Veronica Roth
#64. I do like to hit people-I like the explosion of power and energy, and the feeling that I am untouchable because I can hurt people. But I hate that part of myself, because it is the part of me that is the most broken
Veronica Roth
#65. I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint.
Veronica Roth
#66. One thing I know: For helping me forget how awful the world is, I prefer her to alcohol.
Veronica Roth
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