Veronica Roth, Allegiant Quotes

I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.

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

It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do.

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

I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart.

I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.

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

I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.

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

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

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

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

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

Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now.

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

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

It is impossible to erase my choices.

I am wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, black shoes--new clothes, but beneath them, my Dauntless tattoos. It is impossible to erase my choices. Especially these.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last people left.

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

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

The person you became with her is worth being.

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

How many young men fear that there is a monster inside them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves. People are supposed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.

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

... if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever. And it will never change back." - Zoe

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

Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible faith is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that "something" is a fake bathroom break.

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

Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but i feel like when you believe something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can't help yourself.

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

Most of my life has been spent keeping information close, turning it over and over in my mind. The impulse to share anything is a new one, the impulse to hide as natural as breathing.

When someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.

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

- It doesn't do anything obvious. But it might be able to do something in here. - Then she touched her hand to her heart. - Beautiful things sometimes do.

I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family.And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior

He still smiles all the time, but now his smiles look like they're made out of water, about to drip down his face.

Sometimes I feel like we are the same, but sometimes, like right now, I feel the separation between our personalities like I've just run into a wall.

Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here?I want to be.I can.I believe it.

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

I like to hurt people too. I can make the cruelest choice. The difference is, sometimes I don't, and you always do, and that makes you evil.