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Veronica Roth Quotes - Page 11

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Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now.

Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now.

Mother, Home, Way

I wonder if this is how is is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likable as good men.

Men, Evil, Good Man

It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks

Morning, Eye, People

Every question that can be answered must beanswered or at least engaged. Illogical thought processes must bechallenged when they arise.Wrong answers must be corrected.Correct answers must be affirmed. —From the Erudite faction manifesto

Answers, Factions, Process

No need to continually insist upon your unshakable masculinity.

Needs, Unshakable, Masculinity

All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter.

Land, People, Different

Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.

Book, Reading, People

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 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.

Silly, Fall, Perfect

"Interview: Veronica Roth on her book 'Insurgent' and feminism". Los Angeles Times Interview, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 30, 2012.

If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!

Reading, Creating, Perfect

"Divergent Author Veronica Roth Imagines Terrible Utopian Fiction" by Sabrina Rojas Weiss, December 2, 2011.

Who cares about everyone? What about me?

Who Cares, Care, Insurgent

Dead people can be our heroes because they can't disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.

Hero, People, Forget

I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.

Writing, Voice, People

An artist gives. Gives visually, gives through courses, or with free advice, through generosity of spirit and through a need to share.

Artist, Generosity, Giving

Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care how much money a person makes.

Care, Persons

To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.

Wise, Thinking, Want

Veronica Roth (2015). “Allegiant Collector's Edition”, p.19, HarperCollins

'Divergent' was my utopian world. I mean, that wasn't the plan. I never even set out to write dystopian fiction, that's just what I had when I was finished. At the beginning, I was just writing about a place I found interesting and a character with a compelling story, and as I began to build the world, I realized that it was my utopia.

Writing, Character, Mean

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 danger, it becomes your first instinct

Bravery, Training, Different

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. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.

Teenager, Moral High Ground, Stressed

"Veronica Roth on her book 'Insurgent' and feminism". Interview with Susan Carpenter, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 30, 2012.

The reason the factions were evil is because there was no way out of them. They gave us the illusion of choice without actually giving us a choice.

Evil, Giving, Choices

She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love, not misplace disgust for another person's genetics.

Real, Sacrifice, Done

Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage.

Damage

"Allegiant". Book by Veronica Roth, p. 526, 2013.

Sometimes I just... want to see it again. Want to see you awake.

Want, Sometimes, Grazing

I do like to hit people-I like the explosion of power and energy, and the feeling that I am untouchable because I can hurt people. But I hate that part of myself, because it is the part of me that is the most broken

Hurt, Hate, People

Morning," I say. "Shh," she says. "If you don't acknowledge it, maybe it will go away.

Morning, Going Away, Shh

I am afraid of her, afraid of what she says-and thrilled by it too, because it means I don't have to accept that I am smaller than I once believed.

Mean, Accepting

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