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.
VERONICA ROTHKilling you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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I also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at 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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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
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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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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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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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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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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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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.
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Do 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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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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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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Resisting is worth doing.
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