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.
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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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
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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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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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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 both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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That’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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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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How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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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 didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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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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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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Lies require commitment.
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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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Shh,” I say. “Arms around me.” Obediently, he slips both arms around my waist. I smile at the wall. I am not enjoying this. I am not, not even a little bit, no.
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He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
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