Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
VERONICA ROTHIn ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
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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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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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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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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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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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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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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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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate.
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