I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
VERONICA ROTHI feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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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 feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community.
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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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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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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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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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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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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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You won,” Four mutters. “Stop.” I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes are too wide; they look alarmed.
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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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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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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
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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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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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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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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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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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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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