It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she’s gone. She’s gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it’s all I can do.
VERONICA ROTHSometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
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The truth is… you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back…it hurts.
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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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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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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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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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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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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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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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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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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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