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.
VERONICA ROTHMy 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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I’m sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what’s wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
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There 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.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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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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Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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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 can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.
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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop 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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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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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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