Shh,” I say. “Arms around me.” Obediently, he slips both arms around my waist. I smile at the wall. I am not enjoying this. I am not, not even a little bit, no.
VERONICA ROTHSometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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You won,” Four mutters. “Stop.” I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes are too wide; they look alarmed.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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That’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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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 traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there’s nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
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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 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 suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I’ve done, but I’m sure my list would never be complete.
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There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.
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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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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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