But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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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He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
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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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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. ‘No, Tris,’ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, ‘You look tough as nails.
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Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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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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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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Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
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