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.
VERONICA ROTHA 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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Do I look like I’ve been crying?’ I say. ‘Hmm.’ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he’s inspecting my face.
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That’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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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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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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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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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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My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet.
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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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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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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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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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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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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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