That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel.
Veronica RothBut there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.
Veronica RothHis fingers leave streaks of cold on my skin, invisible to the eye, and I think about wrapping his shirt around my fist and pulling him in to kiss me; I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.
Veronica RothWhen i get home, I sit on the front step and take deep breaths of the cool spring air for a few minutes. My mother was the one who taught me to steal moments like those, moments of freedom, though she didn't now it. I watched her... But I learned something else from watching her too, which is that the free moments always have to end.
Veronica Roth