{"author":"Veronica Roth","author_id":"Veronica+Roth","total_quotes":280,"quotes":[{"text":"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. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.","author":"Veronica Roth","tags":["love"],"id":1297,"author_id":"Veronica+Roth"},{"text":"I have something I need to tell you,' he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and look back at him. 'I might be in love with you.' He smiles a little. 'I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.'That's sensible of you,' I say, smiling too. 'We should find some paper so you can make a list or a chart or something.'I feel his laughter against my side, his nose sliding along my jaw, his lips pressing my ear.'Maybe I'm already sure,' he says, 'and I just don't want to frighten you.'I laugh a little. 'Then you should know better.'Fine,' he says. 'Then I love you.","author":"Veronica Roth","tags":["beatrice","divergent","humor","love","tobias"],"id":3722,"author_id":"Veronica+Roth"},{"text":"I can pretend to be brave, but I'm not.","author":"Veronica Roth","tags":["brave"],"id":5715,"author_id":"Veronica+Roth"},{"text":"Yeah, well, we're all afraid.' I sighed. 'The angry more than most, I think.","author":"Veronica Roth","tags":["anger","cyra","fear","veronica-roth"],"id":7895,"author_id":"Veronica+Roth"},{"text":"I clench my teeth as tears come. I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them. ~ 'Tris.","author":"Veronica Roth","tags":["crying","fear","frustration","tears"],"id":8352,"author_id":"Veronica+Roth"},{"text":"It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.","author":"Veronica Roth","tags":["allegiant","strange","time"],"id":9010,"author_id":"Veronica+Roth"},{"text":"I regret...' Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. 'I regret my choice.'What Choice?', and... I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision.'.","author":"Veronica Roth","tags":["abnegation","dauntless","faction","love","romantic","tobias-eaton","tris-prior"],"id":9918,"author_id":"Veronica+Roth"},{"text":"You're the one who has to live with your choice,' she says. 'Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.","author":"Veronica Roth","tags":["choices","life"],"id":11007,"author_id":"Veronica+Roth"},{"text":"I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding.","author":"Veronica Roth","tags":["openness","secrets"],"id":11350,"author_id":"Veronica+Roth"},{"text":"But then he stops at the door frame and says, It's 9:24. Telling me the time is a small act of betrayal-and therefore an ordinary act of bravery. It is maybe the first time I've seen Peter be truly Dauntless.","author":"Veronica Roth","tags":["betrayal","bravery","chapter-34","insurgent","page-378","peter","tris-prior","veronica-roth"],"id":13529,"author_id":"Veronica+Roth"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":280,"pages":28,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}