In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
VERONICA ROTHWhat 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.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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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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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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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 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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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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I 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.
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I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
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I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I’ve done, but I’m sure my list would never be complete.
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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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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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Lies require commitment.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.
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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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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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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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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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