The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
VERONICA ROTHSometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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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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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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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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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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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What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.
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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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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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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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Change, like healing, takes time.
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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 reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she’s gone. She’s gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it’s all I can do.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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