To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
VERONICA ROTHI feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
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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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What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?
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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 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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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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I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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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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Lies require commitment.
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