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 ROTHI 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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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 didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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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 traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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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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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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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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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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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 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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We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there’s nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
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