When you’re a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that’s really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff.
VERONICA ROTHChoices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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He stares at me, and I don’t look away. He isn’t a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive.
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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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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I’ve done, but I’m sure my list would never be complete.
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No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet.
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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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