Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
VERONICA ROTHThe truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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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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His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate.
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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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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’m sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what’s wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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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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In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
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Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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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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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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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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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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