Veronica Roth Brave Quotations

Four: Be brave Tris. The first time is always the hardest.

We believe in the ordinary acts of bravery.

I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.

It must require bravery to be honest all the time.

Eric called Al's suicide brave, and he was wrong. My mother's death was brave. I remember how calm she was, how determined. It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option.

And is it selfish of me to crave victory, or is it brave?

I am selfish. I am brave.

He told me once to be brave, and though I have stood still while knives spun toward my face and jumped off a roof, I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.

Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, its facing the death you know is coming.

It's easy to be brave when they're not my fears.

I open the door to the fear landscape room and flip open the small black box that was in my back pocket to see the syringes inside. This is the box I have always used, padded around the needles; it is a sign of something sick inside me, or something brave.

I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave

A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.

I am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the brave. I suppose that now, I must become more than either.

I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.

I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different. All your life you've been training to forget yourself, so when you're in danger, it becomes your first instinct

Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.

I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest.

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.

Half of bravery is perspective.

I'll say it one last time: Be brave.

Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.

Don't pretend", I say Breathily. "You know I'm not. I'm not ugly, but I am certainly not pretty." "Fine. You're not pretty. So?" He kisses my cheek. "I like how you look. You're deadly smart. You're brave.

Be brave, Beatrice. I love you.

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.

feel Tobias brushing my hair back before the first simulation. I hear him telling me to be brave. I hear my mother telling me to be brave(...) I am brave.

Being selfless is not that different from being brave. It is when you are selfless that you are the bravest.