To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
VERONICA ROTHGrief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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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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It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
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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 traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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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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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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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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A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. ‘No, Tris,’ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, ‘You look tough as nails.
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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