We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
VERONICA ROTHA brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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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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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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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 didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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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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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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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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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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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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I also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
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I’m sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what’s wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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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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“Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.
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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 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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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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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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Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
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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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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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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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