Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
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, 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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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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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 think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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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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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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He 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.
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Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
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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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