But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
VERONICA ROTHI 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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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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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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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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Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
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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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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 want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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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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