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 ROTHA smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. ‘No, Tris,’ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, ‘You look tough as nails.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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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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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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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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I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
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I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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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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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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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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