I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
VERONICA ROTHIt’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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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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Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
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It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
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To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
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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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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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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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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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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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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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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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