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 ROTHIf I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
VERONICA ROTHThere are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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 ROTHI 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.
VERONICA ROTHChange, like healing, takes time.
VERONICA ROTHDauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
VERONICA ROTHWhen 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 ROTHI think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
VERONICA ROTHI have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
VERONICA ROTHNot writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
VERONICA ROTHPart of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
VERONICA ROTHI feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
VERONICA ROTHWe both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
VERONICA ROTHI know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.
VERONICA ROTHIngenuity requires creativity.
VERONICA ROTH