Veronica Roth Quotes

I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.

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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.

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Change, like healing, takes time.

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In Insurgent we realise how large the world really is

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Maybe theres 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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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.

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It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because shes gone. Shes gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but its all I can do.

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Resisting is worth doing.

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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 feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.

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The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me.

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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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Its strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.

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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I dont even know of what, because I have lost everything already.

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there is power in self-sacrifice.

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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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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.

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I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving through the world. There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand

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Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, its not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions. We cant be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we cant be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.

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