Veronica Roth Quotes About Virtue
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community.
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And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite, intelligent but vain; the Amity, peaceful but passive; the Candor, honest but inconsiderate; the Abnegation, selfless but stifling.
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They 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.
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We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest." He clears his throat. "I continually struggle with kindness.
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I should wonder what courage—which is the virtue they most value—has to do with a metal ring through your nostril.
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