I also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
VERONICA ROTHNature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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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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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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Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
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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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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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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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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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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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