I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
VERONICA ROTHYou believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
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Lies require commitment.
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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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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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Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
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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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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
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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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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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I also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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