Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
VERONICA ROTHI think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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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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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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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
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I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.
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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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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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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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It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she’s gone. She’s gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it’s all I can do.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
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