…there is power in self-sacrifice.
VERONICA ROTHI can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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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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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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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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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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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 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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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I’ve done, but I’m sure my list would never be complete.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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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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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 is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.
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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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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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Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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