Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
VERONICA ROTHI 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
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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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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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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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That’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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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’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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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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Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
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I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
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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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