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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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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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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My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet.
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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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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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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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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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I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there’s nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
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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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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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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 keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
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