I catch myself thinking 'Thank God For This' out of habit, and then I understand what he's so concerned about. What if my parents' God, their whole belief system, is just something concocted by a bunch of scientists to keep us under control? And not just their beliefs about God and whatever else is out there, about right and wrong, about selfishness?

Veronica Roth

Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.

Veronica Roth

divergent love way

Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

Veronica Roth

next guilt done

Change, like healing, takes time.

Veronica Roth

tobias change healing

In 'Insurgent' we realise how large the world really is

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insurgent realising world

Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.

Veronica Roth

novelists remember people

The truth has a way of changing people's plans.

Veronica Roth

plans people way

If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.

Veronica Roth

emotion ends littles

The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel. I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.

Veronica Roth

racing powerful fire

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

tobias lost-everything loneliness

For a few minutes we kiss, deep in the chasm, with the roar of water all around us. And we rise, hand in hand, I realize that if we had both chosen differently, we might have ended up doing the same thing, in a safer place, in gray clothes instead of black ones.

Veronica Roth

clothes kissing hands

She can't possibly be me, though she moves when I move

Veronica Roth

moving

Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.

Veronica Roth

suicide games wonder

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

Veronica Roth

motivational inspirational believe

Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.

Veronica Roth

moving-on hard-times hope

We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.

Veronica Roth

important energy people

We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.

Veronica Roth

alive sometimes war

Reading is such a huge part of my life.

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huge reading

His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate. He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.

Veronica Roth

secret hair two

I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.

Veronica Roth

lines together long

I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

Veronica Roth

inspiration fear way