More Quotes by Veronica Roth
One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.
Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time.
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.
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.
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.
Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
