People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
VERONICA ROTHI didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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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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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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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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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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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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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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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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There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.
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The truth is… you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back…it hurts.
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