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.
VERONICA ROTHWhat 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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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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I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.
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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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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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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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We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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Lies require commitment.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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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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You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
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