I 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.
VERONICA ROTHAt home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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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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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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I also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
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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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Lies require commitment.
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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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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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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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We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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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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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
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