Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
VERONICA ROTHI didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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.
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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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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
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I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there’s nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
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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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Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
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“Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.
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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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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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I feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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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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Resisting is worth doing.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
VERONICA ROTH






