Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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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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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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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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We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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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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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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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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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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How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
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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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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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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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We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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