More Quotes by Veronica Roth
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.
We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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.
Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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.
I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.
