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More Quotes by Veronica Roth
Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.
Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.
There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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.
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.
Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.
Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
