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.
VERONICA ROTHBut now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet.
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I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart.
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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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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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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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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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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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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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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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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 think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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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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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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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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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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I’m sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what’s wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
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I feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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