To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community.
VERONICA ROTHIt isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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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.
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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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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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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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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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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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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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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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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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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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