Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
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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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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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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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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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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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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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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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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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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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