I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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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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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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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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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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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You 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.
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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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I also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
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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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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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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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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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