I also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
VERONICA ROTHI’m sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what’s wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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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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Lies require commitment.
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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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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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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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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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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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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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