I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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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No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
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I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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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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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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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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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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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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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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