Veronica Roth: "Some things are hard to let go of."

About Veronica Roth

Veronica Anne Roth (born August 19, 1988) is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her bestselling Divergent trilogy which has sold more than 35 million copies worldwide.

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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.

—Veronica Roth in Allegiant

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

—Veronica Roth in Insurgent

truth change planning

I fell in love with him. But I don’t just stay with him by default as if there’s no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.

—Veronica Roth in Allegiant

love relationships choice confrontation

You’re the one who has to live with your choice, everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.

—Veronica Roth in The Transfer

life choices decisions

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 in Divergent

memory guilt

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Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.

—C. JoyBell C.

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And this is the simple truth—that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.

—Soren Kierkegaard

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Life is about experience. You can’t hold on to everything.

—Sarah Addison Allen in Garden Spells

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20 May 2014 Added