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.
VERONICA ROTHAt home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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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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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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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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Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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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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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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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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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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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 wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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