I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
VERONICA ROTHI feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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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The truth is… you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back…it hurts.
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.
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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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That’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
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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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Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
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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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It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
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