Veronica Roth Quotes

Mockery is childish. It does not become you.

~ Veronica Roth

I am selfish. I am brave.

~ Veronica Roth

He must have stood there for a long time, making a list of all the terrible things he had done—almost killinng me was one of those thingss—and another list of all the good, heroic, brave things he had not done, and then decided that he was tired. Tired, not just of living, but of existing. Tired of being Al.

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I shower in the dark, barely able to tell soap from conditioner, and tell myself that I will emerge new and strong, that the water will heal me.

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I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no choice in the matter afterward. And maybe that’s true of beginnings, but it’s not true of this, now.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 might be in love with you. He smiles a little. I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.

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I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind.

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Maybe there is some Abnegation in everyone. Well in everyone but Peter.-Tris Prior

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No,I just thought I'd shoot bullets out of my nose

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I also remember that my father was one of the people who voted to get the Dauntless out of the factionless sector of the city. He said the poor didn’t need policing; they needed help, and we could give it to them. But I would rather not mention that now, or here. It’s one of the many things Erudite gives as evidence of Abnegation’s incompetence.

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I like to hurt people too. I can make the cruelest choice. The difference is, sometimes I don't, and you always do, and that makes you evil.

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I can't imagine it's easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feelings are resolved.

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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.

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I am afraid that if I start to sob, I will never stop until I shrivel up like a raisin.

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I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my mother, and the pain they bequeathed to me like a family heirloom, handed down from generation to generation.- Tobias Eaton

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But a person can only keep reality - and anger - at bay for so long before the truth comes back again.

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Some of my anger has faded, but it isn't hard to call back. All I have to do is think about how cold the air was and how loud the laughter was. Look at her. She's a child.

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I still want to be angry, but I have to let my anger go.

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Everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.

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(...) a man encased in ice, his eyes hard and his voice like a frosty exhale.

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Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions. We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.

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- It doesn't do anything obvious. But it might be able to do something in here. - Then she touched her hand to her heart. - Beautiful things sometimes do.

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Why is your heart racing Tris?

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It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.

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Damn,' someone behind me says. 'I was hoping we would get to scrape some Stiff pancake off the pavement later.

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I open my eyes and for the first time stare openly at my own reflection. My heart rate picks up as I do, like I am breaking the rules and will be scolded for it. It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else. …Looking at myself now isn’t like seeing myself for the first time; it’s like seeing someone else for the first time. Beatrice was a girl I saw in stolen moments at the mirror, who kept quiet at the dinner table. This is someone whose eyes claim mine and don’t release me; this is Tris.

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If we're afraid to be ourselves, then who are we? Where's there left to hide?But if we could concur that fear, we just might be strong, powerful. We just might be unstoppable.

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It is impossible to erase my choices.

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I am wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, black shoes--new clothes, but beneath them, my Dauntless tattoos. It is impossible to erase my choices. Especially these.

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It's not often you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest parts of someone. It's not comfortable when you do.

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(...) I do want to leave, in the desperate way that an animal wants to escape a trap. Wild and rabid. Ready to gnaw through bone.

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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.

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She is a woman of muscle twisted around bone.

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Aren’t you going to ask me if I’m all right?” I say.“No, I’m pretty sure you’re not all right.”He shakes his head. “I’m going to ask you not to make any decisions until we’ve talkedabout it.

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So this is where you grew up. Did you like it here? I guess you couldn't have, if you wanted to leave.' CHRISTINA'I liked some things and hated some things. And there were some things I didn't know I had until I lost them.' TRIS

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This is what I chose. This is it. I look over Robert's shoulder. The Dauntless guards seem to have finished examining the truck. The bearded man gets back into the driver's seat and closes the door behind him. Besides, Robert. The goal of my life isn't just...to be happy. Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though? he says

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She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none.

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It’s not about Al,” I snap. “It’s about everyone watching! Everyone who now seeshurling themselves into the chasm as a viable option. I mean, why not do it if everyonecalls you a hero afterward? Why not do it if everyone will remember your name? It’s…Ican’t…

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I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave

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I regret... Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. I regret my choice.What Ch

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