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 ROTHI want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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Resisting is worth doing.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
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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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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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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 believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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His 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.
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Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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