Veronica Roth Quotes

I broke down on Thursday, Nov. 3, and told Sheriff Howard Wells the truth. It wasn't easy, but after the truth was out, I felt like the world was lifted off my shoulders.

Nothing weighs more than a secret.

'Truth Will Set U Free' is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination.

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

It is such a relief to be told the truth.

I feel the weight of just telling the truth. There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.

Truth fears nothing but concealment. Veritas nihil veretur nisi abscondi.

Nothing is burdensome as a secret.

We are as sick as our secrets, so I tell everything.

I have nothing to hide. I believe when you do you naturally become defensive.

When I write that I've known about something for a long time, that's not a boast. That's a confession. It's me acknowledging that I have withheld something important from the public.

Truth. It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been burning me up all my life. Truth, I say inside my head again, just for that feeling.

Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

I couldn't tell her. I couldn't tell anyone. As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real.

As I get older I see that running has changed for me. What used to be about burning calories is now more about burning up what is false. Lies I used to tell myself about who I was and what I could do, friendships that cannot withstand hills or miles, the approval I no longer need to seek, and solidarity that cannot bear silence. I run to burn up what I don't need and ignite what I do.

It requires as much to tell the truth as to conceal it.

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth.

Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.

Truth will never imprison you. Only the repression of your conscience will. This is what is meant by 'THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE'.

Always communicate no matter how hard it is to tell someone something's wrong. It's worse not to talk about it. I learn this every few years. The truth hurts for 3 days. Lack of truth hurts your whole life.

I am relieved. May I now have the truth?

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.