It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
VERONICA ROTHNo matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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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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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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You won,” Four mutters. “Stop.” I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes are too wide; they look alarmed.
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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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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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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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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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