Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community.
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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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Do I look like I’ve been crying?’ I say. ‘Hmm.’ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he’s inspecting my face.
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Lies require commitment.
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My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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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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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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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’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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“Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.
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When you’re a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that’s really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff.
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