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.
VERONICA ROTHI 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
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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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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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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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When you’re a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that’s really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff.
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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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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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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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Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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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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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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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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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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