Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
VERONICA ROTHKilling you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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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’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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Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
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What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.
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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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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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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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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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