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

Veronica Roth Identity Love Loyalty Tris

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

~ Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Four Love Tris

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

Veronica Roth Affection Four Love Touch Tris

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

~ Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Love Strong Tobias Tris Weak

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

Veronica Roth Four Inspirational Tobias Tris

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

Veronica Roth Christina Divergent Funny Humor Tris 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

Veronica Roth Christina Humor Tris

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

Veronica Roth Death Grief Tobias Tris

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

Veronica Roth Dreams Eyes Skies Tobias Tris

Tris: I was reading. Sandry: You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt. Tris: Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me.

~ Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce Interruption Reading Sandry Talk Tris

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

Veronica Roth Allegiant Quote Tris Veronica Roth

I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place whereeverything I’ve ever known is coming apart. I know some things—I know that I’m not alone, that I have friends, that I’m in love. I know where I came from. I know that I don’t want to die, and for me, that’s something—more than I could have said a few weeks ago.

~ Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Allegiant Darkness Death Divergent Divergent 3 Divergent Series Friends Laughter Life Light Love Tris

I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart.

~ Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Alive Darkness Laugh Light Tris

Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here?I want to be.I can.I believe it.

~ Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Forgiveness Tris

I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.

~ Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Forgiveness Love Tobias Tris

It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do.

~ Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Death Grief Loss Love Tobias Tris

You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?

~ Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Angry Beatrice Prior Depressed Fight Four Insurgent Loss Love Pain Sad Secrets Stupid Tobias And Tris Tobias Eaton Tris Tris Prior

Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now.

~ Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Home Memory Tris

Ishabal: If you may correct your vision as you like, why do you wear spectacles? Tris: Because I like them. Because I have better things to do with my magic than fixing my vision when ordinary glass will do.

~ Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce Glasses Ishabal Magic Tris

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.

~ Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Al Brave Divergent 2 Divergent Series Good Heroic Insurgent Roth Suicide Terrible Terrible Things Think Thinking Tired Tired Of Living Tris Veronica Veronica Roth

Why is your heart racing Tris?

~ Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Beautiful Four Love Smile Tobias Tobias And Tris Tris

It is impossible to erase my choices.

~ Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Choices Impossible Tobias Tris

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.

~ Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Four Hurt Love Tobias Tris

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

~ Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Home Life Tris

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…

~ Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Abnegation Bravery Death Divergent Divergent 1 Divergent Series Four Pride Selflesness Tris

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.

~ Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Allegiant Couple Difficult Diffuclty Divergent Divergent 3 Divergent Series Four Love Smile Tobias Tris Wisdome Wise

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

Veronica Roth Allegiant Sacrifice Tris Tris Prior Veronica Roth

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

~ Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Bravery Dauntless Four Tris

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

~ Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Bravery Death Tris Tris Prior Truth

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

~ Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Abnegation Amity Candor Dauntless Divergent Erudition Four Perfection Test Tobias Tris

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.

~ Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Allegiant Beatrice Prior Bureau Damage Divergent Four Genetic Inspirational Insurgent Realistic Statue Tris True Veronica Roth

If you see someone in trouble, you should help them. Experiment or not.

~ Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Help Tris

Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities.

~ Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Chaos Date Destruction Love Possibility Tobias Tris

If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?

~ Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Beliefs Tobias Tris Truth

The ability to think isn't exclusive to erudite

~ Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Allegiant Divergent Erudite Faction Four Insurent Knowledge Think Tris Veronica Roth

I don’t know how long i tis before we get cold again, and huddle under the blanket together.-It’s getting more difficult to be wise. – He says,laughing into my ear.I smile at him. – I think that’s how it’s supposed to be.

~ Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Allegiant Cute Divergent Love Tobias Tris Veronica Roth

If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it.

~ Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Strategy Tris

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

~ Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Dauntless Divergent Fearless Four Tris

Caleb and Tris exchange a look. The skin on his face and on her knuckles is nearly the same colour, purple-blue-green, as if drawn with ink. This is what happens when siblings collide - they injure each other in the same way.

~ Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Allegiant Caleb Fighting Siblings Tris

We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.

~ Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Brave Cowardice Dauntless Four Tris
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