Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
VERONICA ROTHWithout a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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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 watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there’s nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
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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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In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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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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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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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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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
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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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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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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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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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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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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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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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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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