Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
VERONICA ROTHKilling you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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When you’re a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that’s really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff.
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I’m sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what’s wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
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What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near 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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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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Lies require commitment.
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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 want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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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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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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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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