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.
VERONICA ROTHI feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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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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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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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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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I’ve done, but I’m sure my list would never be complete.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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Lies require commitment.
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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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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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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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