I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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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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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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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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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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Resisting is worth doing.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions.
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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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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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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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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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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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Lies require commitment.
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