More Quotes by Veronica Roth
I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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.
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.
If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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.
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.
Some things are hard to let go of.
Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.
In 'Insurgent' we realise how large the world really is
Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.
