It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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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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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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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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Change, like healing, takes time.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. ‘No, Tris,’ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, ‘You look tough as nails.
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How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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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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The truth is… you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back…it hurts.
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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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