Ingenuity requires creativity.
VERONICA ROTHI 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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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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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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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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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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Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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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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Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
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That’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
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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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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there’s nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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