I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
VERONICA ROTHI 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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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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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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The truth is… you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back…it hurts.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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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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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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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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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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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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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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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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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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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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