No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
VERONICA ROTHI 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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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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His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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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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