I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
VERONICA ROTHDo remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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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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My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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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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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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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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It 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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I also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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But when a book comes out, it’s just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen 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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