Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
VERONICA ROTHThen 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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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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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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In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
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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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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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He stares at me, and I don’t look away. He isn’t a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive.
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Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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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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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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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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