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More Quotes by Veronica Roth
Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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.
And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.
Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.
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.
Just as I have insisted on his worth, he has always insisted on my strength, insisted that my capacity is greater than I believe. And I know, without being told, that's what love does, when it's right-it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be. This is right.
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.
