Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
VERONICA ROTHSometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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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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I feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
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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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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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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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Resisting is worth doing.
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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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But when a book comes out, it’s just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
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Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart.
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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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