A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. ‘No, Tris,’ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, ‘You look tough as nails.
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More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
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Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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He stares at me, and I don’t look away. He isn’t a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive.
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When you’re a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that’s really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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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.
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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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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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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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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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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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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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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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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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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.
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Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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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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No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
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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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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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