I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
VERONICA ROTHI have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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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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Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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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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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she’s gone. She’s gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it’s all I can do.
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