Veronica Roth

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1988-08-19

Quotes by Veronica Roth

• There was only one option left, and it was letting go.

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• Pain had a way of breaking time down. I thought about the next minute, the next hour. There wasn't enough space in my mind to put all those pieces together, to find words to summarise the whole of it. But the keep going part, I knew the words for.P151

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• I didn't scream I wasn't afraid. I knew I was strong enough to survive it all.

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• Some days are harder than others, but I am ready to live each one of them. I can't sacrifice myself, this time.

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• My mother wasn't a fool, I say. She just understood something you didn't. That it's not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil.I back up another step and say, She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love, not misplaced disgust for another person's genetics. That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own. ...

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• A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.

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• I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient. There's nothing especially brave about wandering dark streets with no flashlight, but we are not supposed to need help, even from light. We are supposed to be capable of anything. I like that. Because there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready.

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• But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost.

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• Intentions are the only thing they care about. They try to make you think they care about what you do, but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way, they want you to think a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you wont pose a threat to them.

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• I have a scar-a faint gouge in my knee from when I fell down on the sidewalk as a child. It's always seemed stupid to me that none of the pain I've experienced has left a visible mark; sometimes, without a way to prove it to myself. I began to doubt that I had lied through it at all, with the memories becoming hazy over time. I want to have some kind of reminder that while wounds heal, they don't disappear forever- I carry them everywhere, always, and that is the way of things, the way of scars.That is what this tattoo will be, for me: a scar. And it seems fitting that it should document the worst memory of pain I have.

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• If she's in pain now she doesn't show it; she just closes her eyes and surrenders, and that is worse than her screaming for help, somehow.

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• You won't shoot me.People tend to overestimate my character, I say quietly. They think that because I'm small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can't possibly be cruel. But they're wrong.

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• She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil inside ourselves,so we're able to forgive them.

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• But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.

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• There is an art to Noavek bullshit, Cyra said as she muted the feed. We're taught it from birth.

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• There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater.But sometimes it doesn't.Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.

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• But you should know that about Dauntless- girl, guy, whatever, it doesn't matter here. What matters is what you've got in your gut.

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• You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.

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• We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last people left.

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• The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.

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