Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
VERONICA ROTHI suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I’ve done, but I’m sure my list would never be complete.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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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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Change, like healing, takes time.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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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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We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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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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He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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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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I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.
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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 think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.
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