Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
VERONICA ROTHWhen 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
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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.
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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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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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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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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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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 keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.
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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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Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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