It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
VERONICA ROTHGrief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
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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 wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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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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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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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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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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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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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she’s gone. She’s gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it’s all I can do.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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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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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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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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Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
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