But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
VERONICA ROTHI can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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When you’re a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that’s really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff.
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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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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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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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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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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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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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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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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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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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His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate.
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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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