His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate.
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 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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There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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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 don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
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Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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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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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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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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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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