No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
VERONICA ROTHShh,” 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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A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. ‘No, Tris,’ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, ‘You look tough as nails.
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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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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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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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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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I also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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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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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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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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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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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.
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