Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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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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All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
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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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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 want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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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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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
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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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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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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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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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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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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
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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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