What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?
VERONICA ROTHI keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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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 time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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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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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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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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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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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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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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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 feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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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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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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