There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
VERONICA ROTHChange, like healing, takes time.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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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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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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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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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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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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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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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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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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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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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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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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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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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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