Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
VERONICA ROTHI 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 feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
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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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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
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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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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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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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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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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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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 wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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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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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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