Veronica Roth Quotes

To me, 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.

Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged.

Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.

A Dauntless Ferris wheel wouldn’t have cars. You would just hang on tight with your hands, and good luck to you.

The truth has a way of changing people's plans.

Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.

But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.

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

A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.

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.

Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.

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

Grabbing hold of facts in the midst of shock is very Erudite of him.

You're not a coward just because you don't want to hurt people.

Don’t worry about me handling the pain," I say. "I’ve had a lot of practice.

I do know who you are. I just needed to be reminded.

I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.

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

Resisting is worth doing.

There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage - in controlling something, period.

Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing.

My mother told me once that we can't survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.

Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.

I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.

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.

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

Fine," he says. "Then I love you.

And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her.

I was born for Abegnation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But then I met 'her', and...I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision.

I smirk as Peter misses again. I can't help myself. "Hey, Peter," I say, " Remember what a target is?

He is not sweet or gentle or particularly kind. But he is smart and brave, and even though he saved me, he treated me like I was strong. That is all I need to know.

I’m not anyone,” he says. “I’m nobody. That’s what being factionless is.

I don't see any elderly people in the crowd. Are there any old Dauntless? Do they not last that long, or are they just sent away when they can't jump off moving trains anymore?

Learning how to think in the midst of fear is a lesson that everyone needs to learn.

No. Because it's so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?" "And a half," he says.

What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?

Our eyes meet. I hear a train horn, so faint it could be wind whistling through an alleyway. But I know it when I hear it. It sounds like the Dauntless, calling me to to them.

Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.

Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.

You chose us. Now we have to choose you.

People tend to overestimate my character," I say quietly. "They think that because I'm small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can't possibly be cruel. But they're wrong.

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

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

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

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

Human reason can excuse any evil.

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.