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.
VERONICA ROTHResisting is worth doing.
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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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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 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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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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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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But when a book comes out, it’s just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
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What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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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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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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