I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don't see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can't be; someone I can be.
Veronica RothTo live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community. My mother once told me that we canโt survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldnโt want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
Veronica RothIt is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (...) But please, when you see an opportunity...ruin them
Veronica RothI canโt leave now. I like her too much. There, I said it. But I wonโt say it again.
Veronica RothThey all laugh. We all laugh. And it occurs to me that I might be meeting Tobias's true faction. They are not characterized by a particular virtue. They claim all colors, all activities, all virtues, and all flaws as their own.
Veronica RothWhen i get home, I sit on the front step and take deep breaths of the cool spring air for a few minutes. My mother was the one who taught me to steal moments like those, moments of freedom, though she didn't now it. I watched her... But I learned something else from watching her too, which is that the free moments always have to end.
Veronica Roth