Poster Girl Quotes

“It is the symptom of a disease that still infects our population--the desire to make everything easy, to sacrifice autonomy and privacy for convenience. That's what technology is, Ms. Kantor. A concession to laziness and the devaluing of human effort”
― Veronica Roth, Poster Girl

“If your every choice is in defiance of a system, you are as much a servant of that system as someone who obeys it.”
― Veronica Roth, Poster Girl

“The thing about zealots is how much hypocrisy they can justify.”
― Veronica Roth, Poster Girl

“Trades rely on trust, the belief that if you give what you agree to give, you will receive what is promised.”
― Veronica Roth, Poster Girl

“Just because you’re not committing a crime now, by going where you go, by seeing who you see, doesn’t mean that another government, another set of people with another set of priorities, won’t come along and call you a criminal one day.”
― Veronica Roth, Poster Girl

“… the desire to make everything easy, to sacrifice autonomy and privacy for convenience. That's what technology is […] A concession to laziness in the devaluing of human effort […] Not all technology is the same. I encourage you not to get tripped up by semantics. A device that you carry with you everywhere you go, a device that monitors and watches you, is not the same as one that sits in your house and plays music or dries your hair.”
― Veronica Roth, Poster Girl

“Never a scribe to carelessness that which can be adequately explained by shame.”
― Veronica Roth, Poster Girl

“It seems to me, that if your every choice is in defiance of a system, you are as much a servant of that system as someone who obeys it.”
― Veronica Roth, Poster Girl

“Just because you're not committing a crime now, by going where you go, by seeing who you see, doesn't mean that another government, another set of people with another set of priorities, won't come along and call you a criminal one day. The players change, the rules change, that's an inevitability…”
― Veronica Roth, Poster Girl

“— A diferença é que Nora e eu fizemos tudo pelos canais adequados …
— A diferença é que esses canais estavam abertos para vocês, Nikhil. Não estavam abertos para todo mundo.”
― Veronica Roth, Poster Girl

“As pessoas dizem que a história se repete, Sonya pensa, mas ninguém fala de como ela se distorce a cada vez.”
― Veronica Roth, Poster Girl

“Houve uma época em que o meu rosto estava estampado em tudo que é lugar. — E vai haver uma época em que ninguém mais vai se lembrar disso — diz Nikhil. — Você só vai ter que aguentar até lá. — Estou cansada de aguentar as coisas — diz Sonya.”
― Veronica Roth, Poster Girl

“You're like... a piece of paper, looks blank and pale and boring, but if you handle it wrong, it'll cut the shit out of you.”
― Veronica Roth, Poster Girl

“I hope you keep living for a long time. I hope you think of him every minute. I hope you inhale the pain of missing him and exhale the guilt of betraying him.”
― Veronica Roth, Poster Girl