We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
VERONICA ROTHMy mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet.
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Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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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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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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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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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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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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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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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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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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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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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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