Change, like healing, takes time.
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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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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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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Do I look like I’ve been crying?’ I say. ‘Hmm.’ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he’s inspecting my face.
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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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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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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
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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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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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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
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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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