I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
VERONICA ROTHI know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
-
-
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.
VERONICA ROTH -
My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
VERONICA ROTH -
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.
VERONICA ROTH -
Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
VERONICA ROTH -
We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
VERONICA ROTH -
Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
VERONICA ROTH -
His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate.
VERONICA ROTH -
Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
VERONICA ROTH -
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.
VERONICA ROTH -
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.
VERONICA ROTH -
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.
VERONICA ROTH -
In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
VERONICA ROTH -
I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
VERONICA ROTH -
People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
VERONICA ROTH -
I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
VERONICA ROTH -
Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
VERONICA ROTH -
Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
VERONICA ROTH -
Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
VERONICA ROTH -
Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
VERONICA ROTH -
At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
VERONICA ROTH -
Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
VERONICA ROTH -
To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
VERONICA ROTH -
There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
VERONICA ROTH -
We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
VERONICA ROTH -
I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
VERONICA ROTH -
Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
VERONICA ROTH