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 ROTHI feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
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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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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
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But when a book comes out, it’s just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate.
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Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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The truth is… you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back…it hurts.
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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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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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