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.
VERONICA ROTHI’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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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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 feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
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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 am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
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Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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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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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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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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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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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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