Veronica Roth Quotes

Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.

No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.

There can be powerful magic in acts of desperation.

Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision.

People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.

Hey, any time you're throwing bodies over board it is to save yourself.

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.

What would it take for me to eat human flesh? If that was the only way to stay alive, I would. I would eat anything.

I'll say anything to live.

Our cause being almost lost, something decisive and great must be done.

Desperate situations always lead to desperate acts.

Desperate times require desperate measures. Violence is not only the answer. It is the only answer.

Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do.

I love doing things people don't expect. The fans will be well fed.

KILL ME!" And then Newt's eyes cleared, as if he'd gained one last trembling gasp of sanity, and his voice softened. "Please, Tommy. Please." With his heart falling into a black abyss, Thomas pulled the trigger.

Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

Necessity urges desperate measures.

For a desperate disease a desperate cure.

You know, if my life was a horse, I’d shoot it. (Susan)

You shouldn't dare a person who doesn't have anything left to lose.

The time for desperation is upon us. Let's play.

Necessity inspires the fatal thought.

When there are no other options, people fight harder. If the choice is life or death they have nothing to lose.