Veronica Roth · 50 pages
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“What has become clear is that lies are just a temporary solution to a permanent problem. Lying to spare a person's feelings, even when the truth would help them to improve, damages them in the long run.”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The World of Divergent: The Path to Allegiant
“And then I realized that my utopia was a terrible place, and no one should ever put me in charge of creating a perfect society.”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The World of Divergent: The Path to Allegiant
“Lying to protect yourself lasts for so long before the truth emerges. Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The World of Divergent: The Path to Allegiant
“And that gives me a lot of hope, because if I don’t know what perfect means, it’s not something I can reach on my own. Which means that I can stop trying to be perfect and just try to love the people around me and the things I’m doing.”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The World of Divergent: The Path to Allegiant
“Intelligence is a gift, not a right. It must be wielded not as a weapon but as a tool for the betterment of others.”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The World of Divergent: The Path to Allegiant
“Intelligence must be used for the benefit, and not to the detriment, of society. Those who use intelligence for their own personal gain or to the detriment of others have not properly borne the responsibility of their gift, and are not welcome in our faction.”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The World of Divergent: The Path to Allegiant
“Cruel thoughts lead to cruel words, and hurt you as much as they hurt their target.”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The World of Divergent: The Path to Allegiant
“We do not believe that any other virtue is more important than bravery”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The World of Divergent: The Path to Allegiant
“I will be my undoing
If I become my obsession.
I will forget the ones I love
If I do not serve them.
I will war with others
If I refuse to see them.”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The World of Divergent: The Path to Allegiant
“thought processes must be challenged when they”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The World of Divergent: The Path to Allegiant
“I believe the names we choose on our own can be powerful, and they can embody a new identity for us. When”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The World of Divergent: The Path to Allegiant
“if I don’t know what perfect means, it’s not something I can reach on my own. Which means that I can stop trying to be perfect and just try to love the people around me and the things I’m doing”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The World of Divergent: The Path to Allegiant
“I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.”
― Jack Kerouac, quote from On the Road
“People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.”
― Christopher Paolini, quote from Eragon
“The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Shining
“there are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike.' - Morrie Schwartz”
― Mitch Albom, quote from Tuesdays with Morrie
“Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.”
― Milan Kundera, quote from The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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