I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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.
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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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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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That’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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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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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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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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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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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 bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
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