Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
VERONICA ROTHBeing honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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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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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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I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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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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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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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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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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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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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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