More Quotes by Veronica Roth
One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
I see a kind of thirst in her expression, the same one I saw when she told me about her brother in the back room of the tattoo parlor. Before the attack simulation I might have called it a thirst for justice, or even revenge, but now I am able to identify it as a thirst for blood. And even as it frightens me, I understand it. Which should probably frighten me even more.
And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.
The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel. I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over 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.
Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
