No one's perfect," I whisper. "It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad … - Veronica Roth

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My own emotional health issues were bullying me during the time I was drafting that poem. It was a pressure I couldn't pin down or diagnose. And like many, if not most, writers I had the self-consciousness to recognize it made great conditions for writing.

Veronica Roth

No one's perfect," I whisper. "It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it. " I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

Ferocity, Perfect, Way, Weakness

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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.

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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.

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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.

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My mother told me once that we can't survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.

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