What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?
VERONICA ROTHMy name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
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My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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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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I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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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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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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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 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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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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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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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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What 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.
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Sometimes, 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.
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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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Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
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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 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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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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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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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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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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