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.
Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.
I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over 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.
My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.
Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.
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.
We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
