Do I look like I’ve been crying?’ I say. ‘Hmm.’ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he’s inspecting my face.
VERONICA ROTHWe both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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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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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.
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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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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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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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But when a book comes out, it’s just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
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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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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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