If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
VERONICA ROTHTo 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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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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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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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 think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I’ve done, but I’m sure my list would never be complete.
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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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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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The truth is… you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back…it hurts.
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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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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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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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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