What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?
VERONICA ROTHSorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
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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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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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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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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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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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Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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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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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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