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.
VERONICA ROTHIt isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
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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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Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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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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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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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 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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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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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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Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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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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