We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
VERONICA ROTHWe believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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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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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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Shh,” I say. “Arms around me.” Obediently, he slips both arms around my waist. I smile at the wall. I am not enjoying this. I am not, not even a little bit, no.
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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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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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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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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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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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No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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