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.
VERONICA ROTHDesperation can make a person do surprising things.
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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
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My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
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To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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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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Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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