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 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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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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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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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. ‘No, Tris,’ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, ‘You look tough as nails.
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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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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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