I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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More Veronica Roth Quotes
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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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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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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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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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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
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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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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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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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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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Change, like healing, takes time.
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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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