I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
VERONICA ROTHIn 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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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 feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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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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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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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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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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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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Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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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 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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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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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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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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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.
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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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