Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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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Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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The truth is… you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back…it hurts.
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We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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But 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.
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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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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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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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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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My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet.
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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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That’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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