How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
VERONICA ROTHI laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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Lies require commitment.
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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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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.
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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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He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
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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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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate.
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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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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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When you’re a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that’s really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff.
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