Lies require commitment.
VERONICA ROTHI wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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You won,” Four mutters. “Stop.” I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes are too wide; they look alarmed.
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In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
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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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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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Do I look like I’ve been crying?’ I say. ‘Hmm.’ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he’s inspecting my face.
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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 fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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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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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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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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