Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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“Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.
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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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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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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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Do I look like I’ve been crying?’ I say. ‘Hmm.’ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he’s inspecting my face.
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What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?
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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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To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community.
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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 wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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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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I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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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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