Veronica Roth Quotes

I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.

Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.

That is how it feels. Like everything between us is twisted together, friendship and love and family, so I cant tell the difference between any of them.

It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.

I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.

He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife?

Beatrice. We should think of our family. But. But we must also think of ourselves.

My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it.

It's when you're acting selflessly that you are at your bravest." --Four in Divergent

It must require bravery to be honest all the time.

Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.' 'Well,' he says, 'I would only go if there was cake.

Thank you for your honesty.

He told me once to be brave, and though I have stood still while knives spun toward my face and jumped off a roof, I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.

The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me.

I know that I'll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the teachers and librarians that I interact with.

She can't possibly be me, though she moves when I move

That's what love does. When it's right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.

Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.

I'll say it one last time: Be brave.

Reading is such a huge part of my life.

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.

I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar. I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.

Lies require commitment.

One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.

The reason the factions were evil is because there was no way out of them. They gave us the illusion of choice without actually giving us a choice.

I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.

Be careful, though." "Aren't I always?" "No, I think the word for how you usually are is 'reckless.

The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs.

We're all right, you know,' he says quietly. 'You and me. Okay?' My chest aches, and I nod. 'Nothing else is all right.' His whisper tickles my cheek. 'But we are.

Morning," I say. "Shh," she says. "If you don't acknowledge it, maybe it will go away.

Because there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready for it." (divergent pg.138)

Don't you dare try to apologize." His voice shakes. "This is not something you can bandage with a word or two and some hugging, or something.

Sometimes pain is for the greater good.

My first instinct is to push you until you break just to see how hard I have to press.

Nothing else is all right.” His whisper tickles my cheek. “But we are.

Lynn smacks Uriah hard in the back of the head, Christina says, “Hey Tris!” and Uriah cries, “Ow! How on earth do you make a pillow hurt, Lynn?” “My exceptional strength,” she says.

One choice can transform you!

Can you be a girl for a few seconds?" "I'm always a girl" I frown. "You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girl" I twirl my hair around my finger. "Kay.

You know I'm getting a little tired of waiting for you to catch on.

I’d rather eat out of a can than be strangled by a faction.

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.

They try to make you think they care about what you do but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you won't pose a threat to them.

I feel empty, not because of sadness, but because of relief, all the tension flowing out of me.

Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.

My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.

All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.

In some parts of the ancient world, the hawk symbolized the sun. Back when I got this, I figured if I always had the sun on me, I wouldn't be afraid of the dark