Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
VERONICA ROTHI feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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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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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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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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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
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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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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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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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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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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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