Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
VERONICA ROTHYou believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
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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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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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I feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
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Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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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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We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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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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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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