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.
VERONICA ROTHPride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart.
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To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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I 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.
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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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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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