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.
VERONICA ROTHThe fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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Do I look like I’ve been crying?’ I say. ‘Hmm.’ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he’s inspecting my face.
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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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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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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.
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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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I’m sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what’s wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
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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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We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
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We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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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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