Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
VERONICA ROTHAll 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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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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I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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Shh,” I say. “Arms around me.” Obediently, he slips both arms around my waist. I smile at the wall. I am not enjoying this. I am not, not even a little bit, no.
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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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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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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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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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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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Lies require commitment.
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