I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
VERONICA ROTHHis 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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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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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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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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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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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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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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When you’re a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that’s really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff.
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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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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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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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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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Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
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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 watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there’s nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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