Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
VERONICA ROTHWe kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.
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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.
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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
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I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
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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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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
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I’m sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what’s wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
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