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.
VERONICA ROTHGrief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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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 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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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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He stares at me, and I don’t look away. He isn’t a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive.
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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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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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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 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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Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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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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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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