I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
VERONICA ROTHSometimes, 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.
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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I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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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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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
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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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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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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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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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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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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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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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