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.
VERONICA ROTHBut now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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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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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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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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Do I look like I’ve been crying?’ I say. ‘Hmm.’ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he’s inspecting my face.
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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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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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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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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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