More Quotes by Veronica Roth
Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.
My mother told me once 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.
My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.
Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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. 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.
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.
Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
