I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
VERONICA ROTHHuman reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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When you’re a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that’s really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff.
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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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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’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.
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My 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.
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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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Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
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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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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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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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Resisting is worth doing.
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