I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
VERONICA ROTHThen 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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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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Lies require commitment.
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But when a book comes out, it’s just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
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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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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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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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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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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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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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