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Veronica Roth Quotes - Page 3

All Quotes Acting Belief Blame Bravery Challenges Character Children Choices Community Courage Desire Dying Energy Evil Failing Fear Feelings Fighting Focus Giving Goodness Grief Guilt Hate Heart Home Honesty Honor Hurt Inspirational Justice Kissing Laughter Leaving Liars Life Losing Love Loyalty Lying Memories Mom Morning Opportunity Pain Pride Purpose Quality Racing Reading Running Sacrifice Safety Selfishness Silence Skins Sleep Today Training Virtue Waiting Wall War Water Weakness Worry Writing

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

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

Badass, Book, People

Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.

Suicide, Games, Wonder

What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face. “Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.

Sleep, Eye, Tunnels

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

People, Noses, Bleeding

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

Bravery, Doe, Way

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.

Secret, Armor, Gone

It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.

Thinking, Tugging, Embroidery

Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.46, Harper Collins

I'm sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what's wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.

Sick, Want, Wonder

Some people believe that I will go nowhere, and maybe they're right, but maybe they're not.

Believe, People

People, even genetically damaged people, make choices. That’s what matters.’

What Matters, People, Choices

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

"Divergent". Book by Veronica Roth (p. 47), 2011.

I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

Fear, Inspiration, Way

Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.

Love, Relationship, Romantic

Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.70, Harper Collins

To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community. My mother once told me 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.

Mother, Things In Life, Community

It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.

Perfect, Divergent, Alive

I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.

Grief, Heart, Breathing

Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.34, HarperCollins UK

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

Inspirational, Believe, Belief

No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.

Life, Courage, Real

His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate. He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.

Hair, Two, Secret

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

Thinking, Naps, Cake

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

Brave, Lasts, Be Brave

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.

Mother, Father, Desperate

Reading is such a huge part of my life.

Reading, Huge

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

Thinking, Enough, Like Me

Choices can be made again." -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)

Choices, Made, Johnson

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