I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
VERONICA ROTHIt’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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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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How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
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Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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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.
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My mother once told me 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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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community.
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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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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.
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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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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