Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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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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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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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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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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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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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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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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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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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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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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Lies require commitment.
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