Veronica Roth Quotes

Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.

~ Veronica Roth

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

I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.

~ Veronica Roth

I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.

~ Veronica Roth

But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.

~ Veronica Roth

Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating. He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake.

~ Veronica Roth

I love you I say.I love you, too he says. I'll see you soon.

~ Veronica Roth

I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.

~ Veronica Roth

We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.

~ Veronica Roth

Eric called Al's suicide brave, and he was wrong. My mother's death was brave. I remember how calm she was, how determined. It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option.

~ Veronica Roth

I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.

~ Veronica Roth

No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.

~ Veronica Roth

One ChoiceOne Choice, decided your friends.One Choice, defines your beliefs.One Choice, determines your loyalties - Forever.ONCE CHOICE CAN TRANSFORM YOU

~ Veronica Roth

The person you became with her is worth being.

~ Veronica Roth

Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.

~ Veronica Roth

Because inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom.. and as hard as I try, I cannot kill it.

~ Veronica Roth

Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other

~ Veronica Roth

We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest. He clears his throat. I continually struggle with kindness.

~ Veronica Roth

What did you do?” I mumble. He is just a few feet away from me now, but not close enough to hear me. As he passes me he stretches out his hand. He wraps it around my palm and squeezes. Squeezes, then lets go. His eyes are bloodshot; he is pale. “What did you do?” This time the question tears from my throat like a growl. I throw myself toward him, struggling against Peter’s grip, though his hands chafe. “What did you do?” I scream. “You die, I die too” Tobias looks over his shoulder at me. “I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions.

~ Veronica Roth

To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself. Caleb's betrayal is something we both carry, and since he did it, all I've wanted is for him to take its weight away from me. I am not sure that I'm capable of shouldering it all myself - not sure that I am strong enough, or good enough.

~ Veronica Roth

Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.

~ Veronica Roth

Can you be a girl for a few seconds?I'm always a girl I frown.You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girlI twirl my hair around my finger. Kay.

~ Veronica Roth

What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are stillswollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.“Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.”She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an undergroundtunnel.

~ Veronica Roth

I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.

~ Veronica Roth

Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives.

~ Veronica Roth

What do you think they're going to do to us when they find us guilty? she says after a few minutes of silence have passed.Honestly?Does now seem like the time for honesty?I look at her from the corner of my eye. I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.

~ Veronica Roth

You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.

~ Veronica Roth

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

~ Veronica Roth

It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need is mercy. Do you know who taught me that?' A grin. 'You.'P459

~ Veronica Roth

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.

~ Veronica Roth

That is death - shifting from is to was.

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Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity shouldn’t rely on it, because it’s not guaranteed and it’s not permanent and it’s not sufficient. So work hard, fall in love with the writing—the characters, the story, the words, the themes—and make sure that you are who you are regardless of your life circumstances. That way, when the good things come, they don’t warp you, and when the bad things hit you, you don’t fall apart.

~ Veronica Roth

I breathe in. The water will wash my wounds clean. I breathe out. My mother submerged me in water when I was a baby, to give me to God. It has been a long time since I thought about God, but I think about him now. It is only natural. I am glad, suddenly, that I shot Eric in the foot instead of the head.

~ Veronica Roth

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

~ Veronica Roth

Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.

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It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need is mercy. Do you know who taught me that?' A grin. 'You.

~ Veronica Roth

...we have something they want. Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places. We should be thankful that we know better.

~ Veronica Roth

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

~ Veronica Roth

Be careful, though.Aren't I always?No, I think the word for how you usually are is 'reckless.

~ Veronica Roth