Veronica Roth, Allegiant

Veronica Roth, Allegiant

"Caleb told me that our mother said there was evil in everyone, and the first step to loving someone else is to recognize that evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them."
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"Caleb told me that our mother said there was evil in everyone, and the first step to loving someone else is to recognize that evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"My mother wasn't a fool," I say. "She just understood something you didn't. That it's not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil."I back up another step and say, "She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love, not misplaced disgust for another person's genetics. That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own. ..."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"Some days are harder than others, but I am ready to live each one of them. I can't sacrifice myself, this time."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil inside ourselves,so we're able to forgive them."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. But sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did. We could be the last people left."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"I don't want to die anymore. I am up to the challenge of bearing the guilt and the grief up to facing the difficulties that life has put in my path. Some days are harder than others, but I am ready to live each one of them. I can't sacrifice myself this time."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"You're not very nice," I say, grinning."You're one to talk."Hey, I could be nice if I tried."Hmm." He taps his chin. "Say something nice, then."You're very good-looking."He smiles, his teeth a flash in this dark. "I like this 'nice' thing."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible faith is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that "something" is a fake bathroom break."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"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. Caleb's betrayal is something we both carry, and since he did it, all I've wanted is for him to take its weight away from me. I am not sure that I'm capable of shouldering it all myself - not sure that I am strong enough, or good enough."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for"I raise my eyebrows. She raises hers, too, mimicking me."The moments that don't suck," she says. "The trick is to notice them when they come around."
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
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