No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
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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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart.
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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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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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I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
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I feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
VERONICA ROTH