Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
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More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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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 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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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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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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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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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.
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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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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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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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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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