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.
VERONICA ROTHIt will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
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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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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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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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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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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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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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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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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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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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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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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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