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41 " I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no choice in the matter afterward. And maybe that’s true of beginnings, but it’s not true of this, now.I fell in love with him. But I don’t just stay with him by default as if there’s no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me. "
― Veronica Roth , Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
42 " 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. "
43 " I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my mother, and the pain they bequeathed to me like a family heirloom, handed down from generation to generation.- Tobias Eaton "
44 " (...) a man encased in ice, his eyes hard and his voice like a frosty exhale. "
45 " - It doesn't do anything obvious. But it might be able to do something in here. - Then she touched her hand to her heart. - Beautiful things sometimes do. "
46 " It is impossible to erase my choices. "
47 " I am wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, black shoes--new clothes, but beneath them, my Dauntless tattoos. It is impossible to erase my choices. Especially these. "
48 " It's not often you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest parts of someone. It's not comfortable when you do. "
49 " (...) I do want to leave, in the desperate way that an animal wants to escape a trap. Wild and rabid. Ready to gnaw through bone. "
50 " If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end. "
51 " She is a woman of muscle twisted around bone. "
52 " She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none. "
53 " 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. "
54 " I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them. "
55 " It’s getting more difficult to be wise,” he says, laughing into my ear.I smile at him. “I think that’s how it’ssupposed to be. "
56 " ... but in an attack, surviving is an accident. It doesn't take skill to stand in a place where no bullets find you, or to fire into the dark and hit a man you didn't see. It is all luck, or providence, depending on what you believe. "
57 " 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. "
58 " There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater. "
59 " She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love. "
60 " That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel. "