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.
VERONICA ROTHI’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
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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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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
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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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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
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It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she’s gone. She’s gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it’s all I can do.
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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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I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.
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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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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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