Veronica Roth Quotes

I can't leave her now. I like her too much. There, I said it. But I won't say it again.

~ Veronica Roth

If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned it from anyone.

~ Veronica Roth

I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.

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It’s getting more difficult to be wise,” he says, laughing into my ear.I smile at him. “I think that’s how it’ssupposed to be.

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Honor,” I said with a snort. “Honor has no place in survival.

~ Veronica Roth

... but in an attack, surviving is an accident. It doesn't take skill to stand in a place where no bullets find you, or to fire into the dark and hit a man you didn't see. It is all luck, or providence, depending on what you believe.

~ Veronica Roth

She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.

~ Veronica Roth

The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was risking when she risked her life.pg 337

~ Veronica Roth

A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.

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What is wrong with you?' I shake my head. 'Pull it together.' And that's what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up and in like a shoelace. I feel suffocated, but at least I feel strong.

~ Veronica Roth

Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, it's facing the death you know is coming.

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Now it seems like no matter what I decide, I'll be betraying someone.

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maybe here, in dauntless, bravery is the highest form of wisdom. the acknowledgement that life can and should be lived without fear

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But then he stops at the door frame and says, It's 9:24. Telling me the time is a small act of betrayal-and therefore an ordinary act of bravery. It is maybe the first time I've seen Peter be truly Dauntless.

~ Veronica Roth

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.

~ Veronica Roth

She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love.

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That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel.

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The division is based on knowledge, based on qualifications - but as I learned from the factionless, a system that relies on a group of uneducated people to do its dirty work without giving them a way to rise is hardly fair.

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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. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.

~ Veronica Roth

I'll only go if there's cake.~Tobias Four

~ Veronica Roth

This is supposed to be a lighthearted session of symbolic document destruction, not a political debate.

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And there were some things I didn't know I had until I lost them.

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And what this is, I realize, is life. I don't want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I've been trying to claw my way back to them, and now I am so close and he is telling me not to.

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I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.

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I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding

~ Veronica Roth

I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding.

~ Veronica Roth

...something important is lost if this man has been forced to deny his own nature.

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You know,' he said, the condition of sourness--or monstrousness, as you might call it--doesn't have to be permanent.'P189

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Some people might leave you,' he said, for once ignoring a joke in favor of something real. 'But it doesn't mean you're worth leaving. It doesn't mean that at all.

~ Veronica Roth

This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to.

~ Veronica Roth

I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die, and we move on to the next dangerous thing. The sooner that lesson sinks in, the better chance I have at surviving initiation.

~ Veronica Roth

I feel something hot and violent writhing in my stomach. I want to hurt them. I stare at my eyes in the mirror. I want so, so I will.

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You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'P244

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I realize that the decision might be simple. It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great act of courage to choose Dauntless, and maybe just choosing one over the other will prove that I belong.

~ Veronica Roth

This is how we came by our factions: Candor, Erudite, Amity, Abnegation and Dauntless. Max smiles. In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors and leaders and protectors. In them we find our sense of belonging, our sense of community, our very lives.

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I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent

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The opinions of others cannot damage you.

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It's when you're acting selflessly that you are at you bravest

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Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but i feel like when you believe something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can't help yourself.

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Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

~ Veronica Roth