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.
VERONICA ROTHI feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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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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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
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It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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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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