Veronica Roth Quotes

I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person - and I fail.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

I am not as bad as people would suggest. Not as good as I would like to be.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

I'm a horrible person. And it's just coming out in my work.

Have an open mind and an open heart. I'm not this bad person. I'm just doing what I have to do.

We all have them, those parts of us that are the greatest parts of us and the worst parts of us. Sometimes we're put in circumstances and bad choices are made.

I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.

I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that.

I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.

I know I've done good things, I know I've done bad things.

There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.

I liked myself better when I wasn't me.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.

Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people.

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.

I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.

I don't think we have a right to enjoy our neuroses; in fact, I believe that we have a duty not to. But we cannot walk away from ourselves. Who else is there to become?

Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different.