Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
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More Veronica Roth Quotes
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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That’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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He stares at me, and I don’t look away. He isn’t a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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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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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’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
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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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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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