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Because inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom.. and as hard as I try, I cannot kill it.
I fall in love with this life all over again. It's only when I try to live it myself that I have trouble. It never feels genuine.
I want her, in a way I haven't felt before, not just some kind of mindless physical drive but a real, specific desire. Not for someone, just for her.
I almost laugh. My great act of heroism, the only important thing I have ever done, and they think I was working for the Erudite when I did it.
Since he saved me from the attack, I have associated his smell with safety, so as long as I focus on it, I feel safe now.
So what difference does that make, meaning or not meaning to do something? Accident or on purpose, the result is the same,
I would be shocked by the lack of security if we were not at Amity headquarters. They often straddle the line between trust and stupidity.
It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? ( ... ) But please, when you see an opportunity ... ruin them
Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles, like he is surprised you bothered to look at him in the first place.
We could visit him," suggests Will. "But what would we say? 'I didn't know you that well, but I'm sorry you got stabbed in the eye'?
If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned it from anyone.
It's then that I realize: Of course Tris would go into the Weapons Lab instead of Caleb.
Of course she would.
Of course she would.
When you control information, or manipulate it, you don't need force to keep people under your thumb. They stay there willingly.
Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.'
'Well,' he says, 'I would only go if there was cake.
'Well,' he says, 'I would only go if there was cake.
I brush her hair away from her face, gently, so I don't wake her. She doesn't need my protection. She's strong enough on her own.
I guess I grew suspicious of both. Power and knowledge," I say. "To the Abnegation, power should only be given to people who don't want it." - Tris
I didn't realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going.
He is stronger than anyone I know, & warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, & will keep, for the rest of my life.
Either his family doesn't like to come together, or he wasn't originally Dauntless. Which faction could he have come from?
the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil in ourselves, so we're able to forgive them." "Is
Pain can't make me tell you. Truth serum can't make me tell you. Simulations can't make me tell you. I'm immune to all three.
I am not a perfect Dauntless member; I am someone who believes that more than one virtue should be prized; I am Divergent.
I didn't care about Suzao - in fact, I was planning to spit on his funeral pyre just to hear it sizzle - but
So now we all know," says Four, quietly, "that you are afraid of a short, skinny girl from Abnegation." His mouth curls into a smile.
I look up, and stop breathing. Eyes glitter in the darkness. Dark shapes sit in the car, more numerous than we are. The factionless.
Despite the fact that we climbed a few flights of stairs, I still feel like I'm plunging to the earth.
I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless.
I am Divergent.
I am Divergent.
Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.
It's like the landscape is an interrupted sentence, one side dangling in the air, unfinished, and the other, a completely different subject.
Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.
My parents ... They died today ... They died for me. -Tris
They loved you ... To them there was no better way to show you. -Four
They loved you ... To them there was no better way to show you. -Four
But I think that no matter how smart, people usually see what they're already looking for, that's all.
Maybe just as skin on a hand grows together after pain in repetition, a person does too. But I don't want to become a calloused man.
She tips her chin up and looks at me with that Abnegation stubbornness I know so well. She may have left them, but they are what's making her strong.
When you are entrusted with all the information, you have to decide how much other people should know,