I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
VERONICA ROTHSometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
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I’m sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what’s wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
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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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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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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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We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate.
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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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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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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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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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I also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
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Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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