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.
VERONICA ROTHTo find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
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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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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
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It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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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.
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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
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