At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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More Veronica Roth Quotes
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It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. ‘No, Tris,’ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, ‘You look tough as nails.
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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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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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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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Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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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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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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Shh,” I say. “Arms around me.” Obediently, he slips both arms around my waist. I smile at the wall. I am not enjoying this. I am not, not even a little bit, no.
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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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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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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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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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