Veronica Roth Quotes

Fear doesn't shut you down, it wakes you up

~ Veronica Roth

People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.

~ Veronica Roth

I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

~ Veronica Roth

I clench my teeth as tears come. I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them. ~ 'Tris

~ Veronica Roth

Yeah, well, we're all afraid. I sighed. The angry more than most, I think.

~ Veronica Roth

I miss the fears of the past few weeks, rendered small by my fears now.

~ Veronica Roth

Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible faith is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that something is a fake bathroom break.

~ Veronica Roth

Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.

~ Veronica Roth

Freedom. He offered it like someone who didn't know what it meant, someone who had never had it taken away.pg 185

~ Veronica Roth

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.

~ Veronica Roth

Instead I take the lead, Tobias silent at my side, and though he does not touch me, he steadies me.

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Human reason can excuse any evil.

~ Veronica Roth

I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.

~ Veronica Roth

I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.

~ Veronica Roth

It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.

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Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

~ Veronica Roth

Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion.

~ Veronica Roth

I know what it is to become something you hate, I know how it hurts. But life is full of hurt. And your capacity for baring it is much greater than you believe.pg 287

~ Veronica Roth

What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them.pg 459

~ Veronica Roth

I may be in pain, but I am not weak.

~ Veronica Roth

I don't want to die anymore. I am up to the challenge of bearing the guilt and the grief up to facing the difficulties that life has put in my path. Some days are harder than others, but I am ready to live each one of them. I can't sacrifice myself this time.

~ Veronica Roth

Fear,” she says, “is more powerful than pain.

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I wish I could tell him that we’re going through the same thing. I wish I could speak to him like I want to instead of like I’m supposed to. But the idea of admitting that I need help is too much to bear, so I turn away.

~ Veronica Roth

A harsh crack followed the rumble of thunder, a lightning strike. With that, the other musicians began to play, bringing in the tinkling sounds of light rain, the deeper thrum of thicker droplets. The others played the crashing waves, the lapping of water against a nonexistent shore. All around us were the sounds of water, dripping from faucets, gushing from waterfalls.

~ Veronica Roth

Soft hearts make the universe worth living in.

~ Veronica Roth

Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.

~ Veronica Roth

I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Becauseinside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom, toward Tobias, and, aboveall, toward life. And as hard as I try, I cannot kill it.

~ Veronica Roth

There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage-in controlling something, period.

~ Veronica Roth

Sorry, am I being rude? she asks.I'm used to saying whatever is on my mind. Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging

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The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.

~ Veronica Roth

She's a sailboat and I'm an anchor, pulling us both down.

~ Veronica Roth

But you should know that about Dauntless- girl, guy, whatever, it doesn't matter here. What matters is what you've got in your gut.

~ Veronica Roth

You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.

~ Veronica Roth

We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last people left.

~ 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.But sometimes it doesn't.Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.

~ Veronica Roth

But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.

~ Veronica Roth

She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil inside ourselves,so we're able to forgive them.

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But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost.

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If she's in pain now she doesn't show it; she just closes her eyes and surrenders, and that is worse than her screaming for help, somehow.

~ Veronica Roth

I have a scar-a faint gouge in my knee from when I fell down on the sidewalk as a child. It's always seemed stupid to me that none of the pain I've experienced has left a visible mark; sometimes, without a way to prove it to myself. I began to doubt that I had lied through it at all, with the memories becoming hazy over time. I want to have some kind of reminder that while wounds heal, they don't disappear forever- I carry them everywhere, always, and that is the way of things, the way of scars.That is what this tattoo will be, for me: a scar. And it seems fitting that it should document the worst memory of pain I have.

~ Veronica Roth