In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
VERONICA ROTHEvery faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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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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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’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.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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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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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.
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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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That’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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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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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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