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More Quotes by Veronica Roth
Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time.
You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.
It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.
The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel. I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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.
Change, like healing, takes time.
I see a kind of thirst in her expression, the same one I saw when she told me about her brother in the back room of the tattoo parlor. Before the attack simulation I might have called it a thirst for justice, or even revenge, but now I am able to identify it as a thirst for blood. And even as it frightens me, I understand it. Which should probably frighten me even more.
