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.
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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I feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
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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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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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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
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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 power in self-sacrifice.
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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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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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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