The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
VERONICA ROTHI feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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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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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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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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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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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.
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What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?
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I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. ‘No, Tris,’ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, ‘You look tough as nails.
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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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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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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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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.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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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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We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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But when a book comes out, it’s just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
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Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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“Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.
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