There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
VERONICA ROTHI am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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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 wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.
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Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
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You won,” Four mutters. “Stop.” I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes are too wide; they look alarmed.
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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
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In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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Lies require commitment.
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My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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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.
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How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
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All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
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I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.
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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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