All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
VERONICA ROTHWe can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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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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To 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.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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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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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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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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A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. ‘No, Tris,’ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, ‘You look tough as nails.
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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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Lies require commitment.
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I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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That’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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