Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
VERONICA ROTH…there is power in self-sacrifice.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. ‘No, Tris,’ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, ‘You look tough as nails.
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My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet.
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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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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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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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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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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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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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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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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
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