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.
VERONICA ROTHSometimes 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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To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
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Lies require commitment.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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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 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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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there’s nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
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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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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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How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
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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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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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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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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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