I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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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But when a book comes out, it’s just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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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.
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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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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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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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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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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 keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
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To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community.
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In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
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That’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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