People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
VERONICA ROTHKnowledge 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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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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I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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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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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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I 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.
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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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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.
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It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
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My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet.
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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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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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