black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Veronica Roth

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.
VERONICA ROTH

Back Every Hurt Know Love Purpose Second Truth
To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
VERONICA ROTH

Burden Choose Forgiveness Share Someone Wrong Wrongdoing Yourself
But when a book comes out, it’s just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
VERONICA ROTH

Book Come Figure Hundred Learn Listen One Opinion Separate Want
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.
VERONICA ROTH

Alive Building Cast Darkness Laugh Laughter Light Place Remind Strange
We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
VERONICA ROTH

Alive Bith Destroy Inside Keep Sometimes Threaten War
My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
VERONICA ROTH

Again Call Four Name Problem Say
The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
VERONICA ROTH

Body Campfire Fire Fuel Inferno Rage
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.
VERONICA ROTH

About Burts Fall Feel Flame Like Liquid Make Realize Something
In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
VERONICA ROTH

First Must Order Peace Trust
It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
VERONICA ROTH

Accept Anything Bullying Cowardice Prove Recall Sign
Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
VERONICA ROTH

Disguise Game Mission Past Suicide Wonder
It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she’s gone. She’s gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it’s all I can do.
VERONICA ROTH

Again Embrace Ever Feel Gone Like Remind Same
But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
VERONICA ROTH

Also Each Learn Mended Other
Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
VERONICA ROTH

Again Choice Country Made People Person
My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
VERONICA ROTH

Alone Fraction Live Mother Once Purpose Reason Survive
Do I look like I’ve been crying?’ I say. ‘Hmm.’ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he’s inspecting my face.
VERONICA ROTH

Cry Eyes Face Inspect Like Look Narrowing Say

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Veronica Roth Quotes