I feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
VERONICA ROTHI’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions.
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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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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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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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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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You won,” Four mutters. “Stop.” I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes are too wide; they look alarmed.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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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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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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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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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’m sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what’s wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
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