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.
VERONICA ROTHLies require commitment.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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Resisting is worth doing.
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That’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.
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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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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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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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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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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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We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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