Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
VERONICA ROTHDo I look like I’ve been crying?’ I say. ‘Hmm.’ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he’s inspecting my face.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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Resisting is worth doing.
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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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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
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I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
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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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I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
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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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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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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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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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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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When you’re a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that’s really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff.
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