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.
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More Veronica Roth Quotes
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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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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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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 mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet.
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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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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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Lies require commitment.
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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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I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
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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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We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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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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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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