Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
VERONICA ROTHWhen you’re a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that’s really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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I also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
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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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…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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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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“Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
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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 bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
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I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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Maybe there’s 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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