I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
VERONICA ROTHMom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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.
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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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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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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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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are 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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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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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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