Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
VERONICA ROTHWe are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Resisting is worth doing.
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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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 didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
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Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions.
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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
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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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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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