A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
VERONICA ROTHNot writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she’s gone. She’s gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it’s all I can do.
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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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That’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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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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I 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.
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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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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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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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