Quotes from Veronica Roth, Allegiant

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

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.

He still smiles all the time, but now his smiles look like they're made out of water, about to drip down his face.

If you see someone in trouble, you should help them. Experiment or not.

Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now.

Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but i feel like when you believe something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can't help yourself.

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

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.

The person you became with her is worth being.

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

I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.

It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do.

I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.

I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.

I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.

You don't believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they're true.

But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.

If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?

I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.

She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love.

Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities.

I love you" I say."I love you, too" he says. "I'll see you soon.

I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family.And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior

Sometimes I feel like we are the same, but sometimes, like right now, I feel the separation between our personalities like I've just run into a wall.