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Insurgent

Insurgent by Veronica Roth

- “People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.” 

- “Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.” 

- “We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.” 

- “Sleep,” he says. “I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.” “With what?” “My bare hands, obviously.” 

- “Got that gun?” Peter says to Tobias. “No,” says Tobias, “I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left it upstairs.” 

- “It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.” 

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“People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.” 

― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

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“Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.” 

― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

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“We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.” 

― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

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“Sleep,” he says. “I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.” “With what?” “My bare hands, obviously.” 

― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

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“Got that gun?” Peter says to Tobias. “No,” says Tobias, “I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left it upstairs.” 

― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

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“It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.” 

― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

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“I’ll be your family now,” he says.

“I love you,” I say.

I said that once, before I went to Erudite headquarters, but he was asleep then. I don’t know why I didn’t say it when he could hear it. Maybe I was afraid to trust him with something so personal as my devotion. Or afraid that I did not know what it was to love someone. But now I think the scary thing was not saying it before it was almost too late. Not saying it before it was almost too late for me.