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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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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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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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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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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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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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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We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
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Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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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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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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