I feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
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 keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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Lies require commitment.
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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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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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He stares at me, and I don’t look away. He isn’t a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive.
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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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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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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
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My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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I also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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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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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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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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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 traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.
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