I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart.
VERONICA ROTHBut when a book comes out, it’s just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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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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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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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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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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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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I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
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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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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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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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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate.
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