Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
VERONICA ROTHHe 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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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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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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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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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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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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I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there’s nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.
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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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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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