Allegiant Quotes

Morning," I say.
"Shh," she says. "If you don't acknowledge it, maybe it will go away. ~ Veronica Roth

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

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

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

When 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. ~ Veronica Roth

Everything has changed and it won't stop changing anytime soon. ~ Veronica Roth

Though I know that he had something to do with the attack simulation, and with all those deaths, I find it difficult to pair those actions with the man I see in front of me. I wonder if this is how it is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likeable as good men. ~ Veronica Roth

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

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

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

You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward. ~ Veronica Roth

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

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

The Dauthless have the wierdest slang. Pansycake, Nose ... is there a term for The Candor?"
"Of course."Uriah grins."Jerks ~ Veronica Roth

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

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

It's the beginning of the Allegiant rebellion I've been expecting since I first heard the group had formed. Even though it has seemed inevitable to me since I saw how Evelyn chose to rule, I feel sick. It seems like the rebellions never stop, in the city, in the compound, anywhere. There are just breaths between them, and foolishly, we call those breaths "peace." I ~ Veronica Roth

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

Hayes. Peter Hayes. ~ Veronica Roth

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

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

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

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

Christina and I don't speak, but I know our thoughts are the same, fixed on Uriah, on his last breaths. ~ Veronica Roth

If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end. ~ Veronica Roth

Did you just make a joke, Tris? We should have you on painkillers more often if your going to start cracking jokes. ~ Veronica Roth

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

She is a woman of muscle twisted around bone. ~ Veronica Roth

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

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

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

Most of the time I can tell when people are lying, and this must be a lie, because Tris is still alive, her eyes bright and her cheeks flushed and her small body full of power and strenght, standing in a shaft of light in the atrium.
Tris is still alive, she wouldn't leave me here alone, she wouldn't go to the Weapons Lab instead of Caleb. ~ Veronica Roth

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

The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them. ~ Veronica Roth

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

They'll care for each other, she says. That's what people do. I smile and close my eyes. ~ Veronica Roth

They're damaged, after all. ~ Veronica Roth

The ability to think isn't exclusive to erudite ~ Veronica Roth

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

The steps were crowded with bodies then. Now they are clean and cool, like nothing ever happened here. ~ Veronica Roth

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary. ~ Veronica Roth

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I just wanted to thank you' he says, his voice low.
'A group of scientists told you that my genes were damaged, that there was something wrong with me - they showed you the test results that proved it. And even I started to believe it.'
He touches my face, his thumb skimming my cheekbone, and his eyes are on mine, intense and insistent.
'You never believed it,' he says 'Not for a second. You always insisted I was ... I don't know, whole. ~ Veronica Roth

With four? Doing a little ... Addition? Multiplication? ~ Veronica Roth

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

A husband should not discipline his wife, Johanna says. ~ Veronica Roth

Officially, of course, we're all to be treated the same, yes? But that is rarely put into practice. ~ Veronica Roth

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

The minutes I had left with him fall away like dead leaves pulled from branches. ~ Veronica Roth

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

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

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

We are the Allegiant," the voice replies. "And we are many, yet we are no one. . . . ~ Veronica Roth