My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
VERONICA ROTHIt isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.
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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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I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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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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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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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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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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I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
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The truth is… you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back…it hurts.
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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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All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
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He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
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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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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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