Shh,” I say. “Arms around me.” Obediently, he slips both arms around my waist. I smile at the wall. I am not enjoying this. I am not, not even a little bit, no.
VERONICA ROTHI 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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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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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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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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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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No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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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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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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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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I also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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