I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
VERONICA ROTHYou don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet.
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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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A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. ‘No, Tris,’ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, ‘You look tough as nails.
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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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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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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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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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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 wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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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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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 am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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