I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
VERONICA ROTHHe stares at me, and I don’t look away. He isn’t a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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But when a book comes out, it’s just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
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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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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
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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 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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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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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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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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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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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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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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