Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
VERONICA ROTHAll I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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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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Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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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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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.
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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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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
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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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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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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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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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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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