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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More Veronica Roth Quotes
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There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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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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Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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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.
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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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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I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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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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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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