If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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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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Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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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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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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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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Shh,” I say. “Arms around me.” Obediently, he slips both arms around my waist. I smile at the wall. I am not enjoying this. I am not, not even a little bit, no.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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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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“Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.
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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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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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Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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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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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she’s gone. She’s gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it’s all I can do.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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When you’re a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that’s really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
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