More Quotes by Veronica Roth
Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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 both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.
Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.
You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.
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.
