Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
VERONICA ROTHHe is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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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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Resisting is worth doing.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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I 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.
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Shh,” I say. “Arms around me.” Obediently, he slips both arms around my waist. I smile at the wall. I am not enjoying this. I am not, not even a little bit, no.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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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 am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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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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But when a book comes out, it’s just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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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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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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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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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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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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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
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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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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I’ve done, but I’m sure my list would never be complete.
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