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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More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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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 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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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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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 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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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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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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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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Change, like healing, takes 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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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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Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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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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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there’s nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
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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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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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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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