Veronica Roth Quotes

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like s...

If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?

You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.

I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.

The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at lea...

There was only one option left, and it was letting go.

Everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.

If she's in pain now she doesn't show it; she just closes her eyes and surrenders, and that is worse...

What is wrong with you?' I shake my head. 'Pull it together.' And that's what it feels like: pulling...

Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around...

Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.

I'll only go if there's cake.~Tobias "Four

We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst...

Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt

Sorry, am I being rude?" she asks."I'm used to saying whatever is on my mind. Mom used to say that p...

In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to be s...

Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage...

It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.

Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, ...

Stupid. Why do people want to pretendthat death is sleep? It isn’t. It isn’t

Psyche you out?" I repeat. "I'm your FRIEND. I wouldn't do that." He doesn't say anything. I can tel...

Are you asking me to undress, Tris?'A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially

I think I speak for everyone," he says, "when I say you have earned the title of Dauntless".

I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave ...

You’re too important to just … die.” He shakes his head. He won’t even look at me—his eyes keep shif...

Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here?I don't know. I don't know.please.-Tris, DivergentCa...

Aren’t you going to ask me if I’m all right?” I say.“No, I’m pretty sure you’re not all right.”He sh...

What did you do?” I mumble. He is just a few feet away from me now, but not close enough to hear me....

It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with gu...

That night we push our cots just a little closer together, and look into each other's eyes in the mo...

If you see someone in trouble, you should help them. Experiment or not.

It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.

I just wanted to thank you' he says, his voice low.'A group of scientists told you that my genes wer...

Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible faith is one person willing to do something a...

I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no c...

People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.

My mother wasn't a fool," I say. "She just understood something you didn't. That it's not sacrifice ...

But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I thin...

The division is based on knowledge, based on qualifications - but as I learned from the factionless,...

It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with gu...

That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as...

(...) a man encased in ice, his eyes hard and his voice like a frosty exhale.

Some days are harder than others, but I am ready to live each one of them. I can't sacrifice myself,...

He wraps his arms around me and holds me tight for a few seconds. Hisbreaths tickle my ear, and I cl...

If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.

But a person can only keep reality - and anger - at bay for so long before the truth comes back agai...

I don't want to die anymore. I am up to the challenge of bearing the guilt and the grief up to facin...

(...) I do want to leave, in the desperate way that an animal wants to escape a trap. Wild and rabid...

When someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on bot...

I have been able to be kind and pleasant to him because every time I think of what happened in Erudi...

I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else availab...

Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but i feel like when you believe something is ...

I grabbed hold of my Divergence like it was a hand outstretched to save me. I needed that word to te...

I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, ...

Sometimes I feel like we are the same, but sometimes, like right now, I feel the separation between ...

He should be the one to die, part of me thinks.I don't want to lose him, another part argues.I don't...

You're not very nice," I say, grinning."You're one to talk.""Hey, I could be nice if I tried.""Hmm."...

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life f...

I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.

The person you became with her is worth being.

I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else availab...

I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family.And he assured me that he w...

I like to hurt people too. I can make the cruelest choice. The difference is, sometimes I don't, and...

Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?"I raise my eyeb...

How many young men fear that there is a monster inside them? People are supposed to fear others, not...

I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.

I don’t know how long i tis before we get cold again, and huddle under the blanket together.-It’s ge...

It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases i...

But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matte...

She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none.

I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, for...

It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her ag...

... if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever....

I was angry with him before. I’m not really sure why. Maybe I was just angry that the world had beco...

Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actua...

She is a woman of muscle twisted around bone.

She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love.

I don't know why, but his reaction disappoints me.

Most of my life has been spent keeping information close, turning it over and over in my mind. The i...

We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important...

I hear something in her words that's right, but it's hard to believe her right now.

I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.

... but in an attack, surviving is an accident. It doesn't take skill to stand in a place where no b...

I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds ...

I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.

It is impossible to erase my choices.

Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities.

If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it.

We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have live...

She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done f...

You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.

- It doesn't do anything obvious. But it might be able to do something in here. - Then she touched h...

When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her ha...

I am wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, black shoes--new clothes, but beneath them, my Dauntless tatt...

Caleb told me that our mother said there was evil in everyone, and the first step to loving someone ...

It’s getting more difficult to be wise,” he says, laughing into my ear.I smile at him. “I think that...

He is stronger than anyone I know, & warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have ke...

I love you" I say."I love you, too" he says. "I'll see you soon.

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge i...

...something important is lost if this man has been forced to deny his own nature.