To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
VERONICA ROTHWithout a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.
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Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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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 want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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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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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 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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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.
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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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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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“Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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