If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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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When you’re a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that’s really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff.
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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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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
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I also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
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Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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I’m sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what’s wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
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A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. ‘No, Tris,’ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, ‘You look tough as nails.
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