I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
VERONICA ROTHBecause even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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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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You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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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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Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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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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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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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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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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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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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.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
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