Veronica Roth Quotes

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

It's what you deserve to hear," I say firmly, my eyes going cloudy with tears. "That you're whole, that you're worth loving, that you're the best person I've ever known.

If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him.

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

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.

My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.

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.

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

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.

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

Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.

Ingenuity requires creativity.

It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered.

The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.

I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

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

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.

You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?

I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.

I close my eyes. I don't expect Four to reassure me, and he makes no effort to, but I feel better standing here than I did out there among the people who are my friends, my faction.

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.

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

I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind.

Psyche you out?" I repeat. "I'm your FRIEND. I wouldn't do that." He doesn't say anything. I can tell he doesn't believe me-not quite.

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

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

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

It is impossible to erase my choices.

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

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

I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave

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

That is death - shifting from "is" to "was.

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

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

Because life is not fair, Albert. And the world is conspiring against you.

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

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

The person you became with her is worth being.

I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did. I don't.

Oh. I just assumed... That because I am so absorbed by him everyone must be too.

All three combined is...a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind.

How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another.

I also don't believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much like an Erudite afterlife to me, all accuracy and no feeling.

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

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

I want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead.

So you're her brother? Says Linn. I guess we know who got the good genes.

It was him or me. I chose me. But I feel dead too.

Few people who are born into Abnegation choose to leave it. When they do, we remember.