My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
VERONICA ROTHIt 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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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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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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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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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she’s gone. She’s gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it’s all I can do.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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Do I look like I’ve been crying?’ I say. ‘Hmm.’ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he’s inspecting my face.
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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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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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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