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.
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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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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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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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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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I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there’s nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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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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My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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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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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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