I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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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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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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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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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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Lies require commitment.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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I’m sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what’s wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
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