You won,” Four mutters. “Stop.” I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes are too wide; they look alarmed.
VERONICA ROTHI keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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He stares at me, and I don’t look away. He isn’t a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive.
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I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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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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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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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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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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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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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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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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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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