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.
VERONICA ROTHSometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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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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Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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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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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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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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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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