I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
VERONICA ROTHShh,” I say. “Arms around me.” Obediently, he slips both arms around my waist. I smile at the wall. I am not enjoying this. I am not, not even a little bit, no.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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That’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart.
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Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
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How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
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