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More Quotes by Veronica Roth
Change, like healing, takes time.
Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
Some people will always fear change. But we can't indulge them.
Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
In 'Insurgent' we realise how large the world really is
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. 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.
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.
Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
Desperation can make a person do surprising things.