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 ROTHI keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
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To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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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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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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Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
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The truth is… you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back…it hurts.
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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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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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Do I look like I’ve been crying?’ I say. ‘Hmm.’ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he’s inspecting my face.
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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 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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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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