I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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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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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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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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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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
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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’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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I also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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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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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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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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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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“Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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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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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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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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