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.
VERONICA ROTHI want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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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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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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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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Resisting is worth doing.
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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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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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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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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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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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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
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All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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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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That’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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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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I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.
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There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.
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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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I 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.
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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