Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
VERONICA ROTHYou don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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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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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.
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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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You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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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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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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When you’re a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that’s really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions.
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I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart.
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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.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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