I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there’s nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
VERONICA ROTHIt isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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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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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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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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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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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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To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community.
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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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I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.
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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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