Change, like healing, takes time.
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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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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I feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
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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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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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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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Lies require commitment.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart.
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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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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It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
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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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All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
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