Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
VERONICA ROTHTo 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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.
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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 wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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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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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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Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
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When you’re a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that’s really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
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No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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