You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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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Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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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’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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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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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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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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Resisting is worth doing.
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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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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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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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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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