I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
VERONICA ROTHSometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
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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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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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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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In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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Resisting is worth doing.
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I’ve done, but I’m sure my list would never be complete.
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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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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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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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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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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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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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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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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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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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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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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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