Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
VERONICA ROTHBut now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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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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Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
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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.
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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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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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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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I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.
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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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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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