I’m sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what’s wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
VERONICA ROTHI’m sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what’s wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
VERONICA ROTHWe believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
VERONICA ROTHThe truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
VERONICA ROTHChange, like healing, takes time.
VERONICA ROTHMy mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
VERONICA ROTHTo 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.
VERONICA ROTHWhat did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?
VERONICA ROTHSometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
VERONICA ROTHReading is such a huge part of my life.
VERONICA ROTHResisting is worth doing.
VERONICA ROTHYou don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
VERONICA ROTHIt’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
VERONICA ROTHLies require commitment.
VERONICA ROTHKilling you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
VERONICA ROTHKnowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
VERONICA ROTHHis fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate.
VERONICA ROTH