I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
VERONICA ROTHReading is such a huge part of my life.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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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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Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions.
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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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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 want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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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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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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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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Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
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