Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
VERONICA ROTHIt doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
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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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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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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.
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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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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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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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I’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.
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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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I feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
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I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart.
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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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