Resisting is worth doing.
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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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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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 watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there’s nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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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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I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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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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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she’s gone. She’s gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it’s all I can do.
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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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