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.
VERONICA ROTHI watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there’s nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
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I 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.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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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 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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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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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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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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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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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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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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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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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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