Change, like healing, takes time.
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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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.
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I also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.
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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.
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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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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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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 traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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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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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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