Veronica Roth Quotes

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• I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
• I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it.
• It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.
• As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground.…
• I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different. All your life you've been training to forget yourself, so when you're in…
• Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.
• You know what mom told me once? She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to…
• What makes you different, makes you dangerous.
• I also don't believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much like an Erudite…
• In 'Insurgent' we realise how large the world really is
• Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice.
• 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…
• No need to continually insist upon your unshakable masculinity.
• People, even genetically damaged people, make choices. That’s what matters.’
• All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter.
• I've done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
• Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
• There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of…
• It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I…
• When you're a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that's really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and…

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