All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
VERONICA ROTHGrief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community.
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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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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
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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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It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
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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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I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
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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 don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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