At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
VERONICA ROTHMaybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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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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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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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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Do I look like I’ve been crying?’ I say. ‘Hmm.’ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he’s inspecting my face.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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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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I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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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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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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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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You won,” Four mutters. “Stop.” I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes are too wide; they look alarmed.
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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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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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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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