Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
VERONICA ROTHI don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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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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I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.
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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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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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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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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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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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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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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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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.
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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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Resisting is worth doing.
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We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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