Quote

The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.

Veronica Roth

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
Else
Forgive
Someone
Forgiveness
Firsts
Forgiving
First
Recognize
Loving
Step
Steps
Evil

More quotes by Veronica Roth

Image
Why are you constantly escorting me places?” I say. “Isn’t there a depraved activity you’re supposed to be taking part in? Kicking puppies or spying on girls while they change, or something?
Veronica Roth
Image
You want him to walk? Caleb demands. Are you insane? Did I shoot him in the leg? I say. No. He walks. Where do we go, Peter?
Veronica Roth
Image
What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?
Veronica Roth
Image
Little girl, he called me. A little girl who is stressed out to the point of paranoia. That is not me, but now, it's who the Candor think I am.
Veronica Roth
Image
You may have succeeded in shutting down the attack simulation, girl, but it was by luck alone, not skill. I would die of shock if you managed to do anything useful again for a long time This is the Marcus that Tobias knows. The one who knows right where to hit to cause the most damage.
Veronica Roth
Image
The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me.
Veronica Roth
Image
Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one.
Veronica Roth
Image
It is impossible to erase my choices.
Veronica Roth
Image
Your daughter is doing well here. I've been overseeing her training. Since when does overseeing include throwing knives at me and scolding me at every opportunity?
Veronica Roth
Image
Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing.
Veronica Roth
Image
She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none.
Veronica Roth
Image
I note how calm she looks and how focused she is. She is well-practiced in the art of losing herself. I can't say the same of myself.
Veronica Roth
Image
If Eric thinks I did something right, I must have done it wrong.
Veronica Roth
Image
I frown at him. How does he know all this information? And why, after two years of avoiding becoming a Dauntless leader at all costs, is he suddenly acting like one?
Veronica Roth
Image
But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.
Veronica Roth
Image
The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.
Veronica Roth
Image
Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.
Veronica Roth
Image
He is not sweet or gentle or particularly kind. But he is smart and brave, and even though he saved me, he treated me like I was strong. That is all I need to know.
Veronica Roth
Image
It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
Veronica Roth
Image
I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
Veronica Roth