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It's hard to know what's right in this life, ' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need is mercy. Do you know who taught me that?' A grin. 'You.'"P459Veronica Roth
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Il dolore aveva un suo modo di scomporre il tempo. Pensavo al minuto successivo, all'ora successiva. Non c'era abbastanza spazio nella mia mente per mettere insieme tutti quei pezzi, per trovare le parole per riassumerla nella sua interezza. Ma la parte dell'"andare avanti", per quella le parole le avevo.' Trova un modo per andare avanti' dissi. 'Non deve necessariamente essere buono, o nobile. Basta che sia un motivo.' Conoscevo il mio: c'era una fame dentro di me e c'era sempre stata. Una fame più forte del dolore, più forte dell'orrore. Continuava a mordere anche dopo che ogni altra cosa dentro di me si era arresa. E quando finalmente le diedi un nome, scoprii che era qualcosa di molto semplice: desiderio di vivere.Veronica Roth
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It's hard to know what's right in this life, ' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need is mercy. Do you know who taught me that?' A grin. 'You.Veronica Roth
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Yeah, well, we're all afraid." I sighed. "The angry more than most, I think.Veronica Roth
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Freedom. He offered it like someone who didn't know what it meant, someone who had never had it taken away."pg 185Veronica Roth
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I know what it is to become something you hate, I know how it hurts. But life is full of hurt. And your capacity for baring it is much greater than you believe."pg 287Veronica Roth
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What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them.pg 459Veronica Roth
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I may be in pain, but I am not weak.Veronica Roth
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A harsh crack followed the rumble of thunder, a lightning strike. With that, the other musicians began to play, bringing in the tinkling sounds of light rain, the deeper thrum of thicker droplets. The others played the crashing waves, the lapping of water against a nonexistent shore. All around us were the sounds of water, dripping from faucets, gushing from waterfalls.Veronica Roth
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Soft hearts make the universe worth living in.Veronica Roth
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There is an art to Noavek bullshit, " Cyra said as she muted the feed. "We're taught it from birth.Veronica Roth
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I didn't scream I wasn't afraid. I knew I was strong enough to survive it all.Veronica Roth
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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. P151Veronica Roth
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Honor, ” I said with a snort. “Honor has no place in survival.Veronica Roth
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The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was risking when she risked her life."pg 337Veronica Roth
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You know, ' he said, the condition of sourness--or monstrousness, as you might call it--doesn't have to be permanent.' P189Veronica Roth
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This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to.Veronica Roth
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You're desperate, and so am I, ' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'" P244Veronica Roth