My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
VERONICA ROTHI watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there’s nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
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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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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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He stares at me, and I don’t look away. He isn’t a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive.
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We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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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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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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