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 am a naturally curious person. -Tris
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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I also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
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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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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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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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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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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 didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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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.
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Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions.
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