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.
VERONICA ROTHIn 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
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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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Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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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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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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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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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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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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You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
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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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