Veronica Roth Quotes

And is it selfish of me to crave victory, or is it brave?

Little girl, he called me. A little girl who is stressed out to the point of paranoia. That is not me, but now, it's who the Candor think I am.

I'm surprised you know that," I say quietly, " since you left halfway through my one and only fight." "It wasn't something I wanted to watch." he says. What's that supposed to mean?

I can't tell him I need him. I can't need him, period -- or really, we can't need each other, because who knows how long either of us will last in this war?

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

I have your back. I didn't mean only when it's easy. All the time.

I try to leave some space in my mind for things to surprise me or change my mind, I think that's important.

He smiles in my memory. A curled lip. Straight teeth. Light in his eyes. Laughing, teasing, more alive in memory than I m in reality. It was him or me. I chose me. But I feel dead too.

But now I know how large the world is... Well. I suppose I have grown to large out of my faction. As a consequence.

feel Tobias brushing my hair back before the first simulation. I hear him telling me to be brave. I hear my mother telling me to be brave(...) I am brave.

Be brave, Beatrice. I love you.

Then everyone can call you Six.” “Four and Six,” I say.

I slowly realized that perfectionism just not that important. What's more important is to try to love the people around you. Whatever that means at a particular time is the best you can do.

My Tris should look pale and small--she is pale and small, after all--but instead the room is full of her.

I am a child. I am two feet tall, and asking if she loves me.

Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care how much money a person makes.

He is strong, and lithe, and certain. And he is mine.

Just do what you're supposed to.

Stiff. That’s why you’re strong, get it? - Tobias Eaton

The Dauthless have the wierdest slang. Pansycake, Nose...is there a term for The Candor?" "Of course."Uriah grins."Jerks

You don’t always have to smack people in the face with how strong you are

I should wonder what courage—which is the virtue they most value—has to do with a metal ring through your nostril.

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

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

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

Don't confuse your grief with guilt.

To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.

How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me-

What's your name? Um... Think about it. You don't get to pick again. Tris.

Life's something we already understand. Death is a mystery.

Peace is restrained; this is free.

By the time we leave, I have red lips and curled eyelashes, and I’m wearing a bright red dress. And there’s a knife strapped to the inside of my knee. This all makes perfect sense.

Do it fast, you pansycake.

We are not the same. But we are, somehow, one.

Even though I am still injured, I had to fight again today.Luckily this time,I was paired against Myra,who couldn't throw a good punch if someone was controlling her arm for her.

Christina,'i say,'The factionless have all the guns.

Independent and uninvolved. Must be nice. -Tris

Please. They're like the Cult of Four.

I used to go outside every day and invent these elaborate worlds and scenarios in my head, and when I grew too old for playing pretend, I started to write everything down instead.

I get the strange urge to hit my head against the wall. Other people's sobs make me feel uncomfortable.

She smiles.Her teeth are crooked. If I knocked them out,I might be doing her a favor.

You want him to walk?" Caleb demands. "Are you insane?" "Did I shoot him in the leg?" I say. "No. He walks. Where do we go, Peter?

He looks like a man who has spent most of his life frowning.

Inquisitiveness is self-serving, Johanna. -Marcus Eaton

But when you kill someone you love, the hard part is never over. It just gets easier to distract yourself from what you've done.

Nothing else is alright. But we are. -Tobias

I decide to do what I always do when I'm not sure what's going on: I act like everyone else.

I feel acutely aware of how young I am. In a way that is good. It's productive. It makes me realise that I should be growing as a writer and a person.

We can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to.

I forget that he is another person; instead it feels like he is another part of me, just as essential as a heart or an eye or an arm.