We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
VERONICA ROTHSometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
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He stares at me, and I don’t look away. He isn’t a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive.
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Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
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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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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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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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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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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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It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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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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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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