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More Quotes by Veronica Roth
The truth has a way of changing people's plans.
Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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.
A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
Change, like healing, takes time.
It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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.
Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time.
