More Quotes by Veronica Roth
Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.
Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.
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.
A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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.
Some people will always fear change. But we can't indulge them.
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.
