Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
VERONICA ROTHMy mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet.
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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.
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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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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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“Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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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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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 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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Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
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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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Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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