I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
VERONICA ROTHIf I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
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I 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.
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To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
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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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My 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.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she’s gone. She’s gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it’s all I can do.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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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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Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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Lies require commitment.
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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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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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