If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
VERONICA ROTHSometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
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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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But when a book comes out, it’s just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
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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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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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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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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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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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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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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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