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 ROTHI think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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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 have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.
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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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Lies require commitment.
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I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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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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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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