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.
VERONICA ROTHThe truth is… you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back…it hurts.
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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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet.
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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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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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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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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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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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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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