Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
VERONICA ROTHThere 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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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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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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Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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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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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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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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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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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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