No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
VERONICA ROTHI want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.
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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 know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.
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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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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I’ve done, but I’m sure my list would never be complete.
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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.
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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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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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