More Quotes by Veronica Roth
The truth has a way of changing people's plans.
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.
Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
Change, like healing, takes time.
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.
Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.
