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 ROTHNot 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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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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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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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
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My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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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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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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Do I look like I’ve been crying?’ I say. ‘Hmm.’ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he’s inspecting my face.
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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
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There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.
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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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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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