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.
VERONICA ROTHIn ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?
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Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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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 reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
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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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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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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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You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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