Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
VERONICA ROTHMom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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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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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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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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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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Change, like healing, takes time.
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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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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.
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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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Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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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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I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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