Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
VERONICA ROTHIn order to have peace, we must first have trust.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
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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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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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Lies require commitment.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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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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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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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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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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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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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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