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 ROTHI 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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 it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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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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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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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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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
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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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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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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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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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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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We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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“Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.
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I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
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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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What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?
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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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