If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
VERONICA ROTHI know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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 time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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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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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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Shh,” I say. “Arms around me.” Obediently, he slips both arms around my waist. I smile at the wall. I am not enjoying this. I am not, not even a little bit, no.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
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I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart.
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I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.
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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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Resisting is worth doing.
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