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 ROTHTo 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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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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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 traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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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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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate.
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No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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The truth is… you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back…it hurts.
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We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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