I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
VERONICA ROTHI can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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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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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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Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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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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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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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’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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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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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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It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
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