I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
VERONICA ROTHHe is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I’ve done, but I’m sure my list would never be complete.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.
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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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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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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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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 time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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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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“Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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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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