I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
VERONICA ROTHI’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
VERONICA ROTHGrief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
VERONICA ROTHHe is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
VERONICA ROTHWe both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
VERONICA ROTHYou believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
VERONICA ROTHThere is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.
VERONICA ROTHEvery 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.
VERONICA ROTHI feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
VERONICA ROTHI 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.
VERONICA ROTHI also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
VERONICA ROTHIt’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
VERONICA ROTHThere is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
VERONICA ROTHWe believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
VERONICA ROTHCruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
VERONICA ROTHIn ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
VERONICA ROTHThe truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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