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.
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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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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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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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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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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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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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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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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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.
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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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What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.
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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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