But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
VERONICA ROTHThat’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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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 didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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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.
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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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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Shh,” I say. “Arms around me.” Obediently, he slips both arms around my waist. I smile at the wall. I am not enjoying this. I am not, not even a little bit, no.
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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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Resisting is worth doing.
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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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There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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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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Every 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.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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When you’re a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that’s really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff.
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I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I’ve done, but I’m sure my list would never be complete.
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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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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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