I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.
VERONICA ROTHPart of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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 want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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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 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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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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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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My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet.
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“Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.
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His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate.
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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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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.
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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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