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More Quotes by Veronica Roth
Some things are hard to let go of.
Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.
Ingenuity requires creativity.
Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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.
One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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.
Some people will always fear change. But we can't indulge them.
