I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
VERONICA ROTHEvery 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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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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Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
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I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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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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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
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