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.
VERONICA ROTHNot writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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I feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
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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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To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
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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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It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
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I 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.
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You won,” Four mutters. “Stop.” I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes are too wide; they look alarmed.
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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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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You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
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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 feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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