I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
VERONICA ROTHI 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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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 know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.
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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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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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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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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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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
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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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What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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