I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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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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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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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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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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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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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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Lies require commitment.
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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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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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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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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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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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I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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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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I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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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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It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she’s gone. She’s gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it’s all I can do.
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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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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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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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Do I look like I’ve been crying?’ I say. ‘Hmm.’ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he’s inspecting my face.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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