Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
VERONICA ROTHMom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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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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I feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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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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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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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.
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It 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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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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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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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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