The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
VERONICA ROTHIf I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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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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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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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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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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No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
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We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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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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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.
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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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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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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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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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Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
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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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I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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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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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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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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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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Lies require commitment.
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