Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
VERONICA ROTHThat’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
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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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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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I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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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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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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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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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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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
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