No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
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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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions.
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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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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.
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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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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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The truth is… you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back…it hurts.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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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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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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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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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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