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.
VERONICA ROTHLooking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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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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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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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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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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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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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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Sometimes, 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.
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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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