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.
VERONICA ROTHI don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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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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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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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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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 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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Shh,” I say. “Arms around me.” Obediently, he slips both arms around my waist. I smile at the wall. I am not enjoying this. I am not, not even a little bit, no.
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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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