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.
VERONICA ROTHI’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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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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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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I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
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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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When 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.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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