It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
VERONICA ROTHI think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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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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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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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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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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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
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You won,” Four mutters. “Stop.” I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes are too wide; they look alarmed.
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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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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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