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“My mother wasn't a fool," I say. "She just understood something you didn't. That it's not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil."I back up another step and say, "...”
“You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.”
“We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last people left.”
“Caleb told me that our mother said there was evil in everyone, and the first step to loving someone else is to recognize that evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.”
“Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.”
“But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.”
“I just wanted to thank you' he says, his voice low.'A group of scientists told you that my genes were damaged, that there was something wrong with me - they showed you the test results that proved ...”
“She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil inside ourselves,so we're able to forgive them.”
“It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.”
“It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.”
“I laugh, and its laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place whereeverything Ive ever known is coming apart. I ...”
“I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart.”
“I hear something in her words that's right, but it's hard to believe her right now.”
“Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now.”
“Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here?I want to be.I can.I believe it.”
“I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.”
“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 have been able to be kind and pleasant to him because every time I think of what happened in Erudite headquarters, I immediately push the thought aside. But that can't be forgiveness - if I had f...”
“It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do.”
“I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family.And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior”
