Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
VERONICA ROTHSometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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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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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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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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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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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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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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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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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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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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