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More Quotes by Veronica Roth
Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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.
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.
Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.
I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
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.
Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.
