Quotes from Insurgent by Veronica Roth

Bookish Mardi: Insurgent by Veronica Roth 

"We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us." - Veronica Roth 

Book Summary

One choice can transform you - or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those who loves- and herself- while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.

Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; intead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable - and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so. (Source: Wikipedia)

Remarkable Limes from the Book 

"Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain a secret."

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"I don't believe it's more important to move forward than to find out the truth." - Tris

"The truth has a way of changing a person's plans." - Tris

"Independent and uninvolvement. Must be nice." - Tris

". . . sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it." - Tris

". . . it would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to linger." - Tris

"Every member of your communityhas trouble keeping the peace, because they're all human." - Tobias

"Sometimes, people just want to be happy even if it's not real." - Tobias

"I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces of the grief to get in, so I stay busy." - Tris

"How do you stop conflict without conflict?" - Marcus Eaton

"Choices can be made once again." - Evelyn Eaton

"Noise and activity are the refuge of the bereaved and the guilty." - Tris

"Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measure." - Evelyn Eaton

". . . the smaller I become, the safer I am." - Tris

". . . anyone with an ounce of dignity wants to keep some things to herself."  - Tris

"Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time." - Andrew Prior

"No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or until something real happens." - Lynne

"Sometimes creativity seems wasteful, illogical. . .
unless it's done for a greater purpose. In this case, the accumulation of knowledge." - Tris

"The brain finished developing at age twenty-five." - Eric

"The Candor made ice cream. . . It probably won;'t be as good as Dauntless cake." - Marlene

"We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us." - Tris

"Sometimes I feel like I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving through the world." - Tris

"There is always something to learn, always something that is important to understand."

"Blood is a strange color. It's darker than you expect it to be. " - Tris

"We live in a dangerous world, and I am not so attached to life that I will do anything to survive." - Tris

- Four and Six

"You die, I die too." - Tobias

"I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity." - Tris

". . . inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom, toward Tobias, and, above all, toward life. And as hard as I try, I cannot kill it."- Tris

"Sometimes you insist that you are not alittle girl, and sometimes you insist that you are." - Jeanine Matthews

"Fear is more powerful that pain." -  Jeanine Matthews

"Evil depends on where you're standing." - Caleb Prior

"Cruelty does not make a person dishonet, the same way bravery does not make a person kind." - Tris

". . . we never leave our old factions behind."  - Tris

"When you are entrusted with all the information, you have to decide how much other people should know." - Marcus

"We believe in a God who gives peace and cherishes it. So we give peace to each other and cherish it." - Old Woman

"May the peace of God be with you even in the midst of trouble. It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift." - Old Woman

". . .is a metaphor a definite category beneath the heading of 'figure of speech'? - Fernando

"Entropy. . . it's the theory that all matter in the universe is gradually moving toward the same temperature. Also known as 'heat death'." - Elia

". . . technology is supposd to make your life better. No matter what you believe, there's atechnology out there for you." - Cara

"Insugent"

"The logical puzzle: In a fight between two perfect equals, how can one win?" - Tris

. . .my most favorite quote from the book

"People 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 heart. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them." - Tris

". . . sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like." - Johanna

"Our struggle against violence and cruelty is only treating the symptoms of a disease, not curing it. You are the cure." - Amanda

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