At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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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 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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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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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.
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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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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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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions.
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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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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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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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It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she’s gone. She’s gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it’s all I can do.
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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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Shh,” I say. “Arms around me.” Obediently, he slips both arms around my waist. I smile at the wall. I am not enjoying this. I am not, not even a little bit, no.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
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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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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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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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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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