You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
VERONICA ROTHI know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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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 feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?
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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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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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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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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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