It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
VERONICA ROTHMy name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.
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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 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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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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When you’re a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that’s really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff.
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It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she’s gone. She’s gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it’s all I can do.
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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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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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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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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
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My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet.
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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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To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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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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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate.
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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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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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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