Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
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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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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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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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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No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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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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