Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
VERONICA ROTHSometimes, 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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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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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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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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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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He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
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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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His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate.
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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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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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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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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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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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