You won,” Four mutters. “Stop.” I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes are too wide; they look alarmed.
VERONICA ROTHSometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near 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’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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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
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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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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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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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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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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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Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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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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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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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 reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
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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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Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions.
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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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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.
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A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. ‘No, Tris,’ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, ‘You look tough as nails.
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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