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    Abnegation produces deeply serious people. People who automatically see things like need,” he says. “I’ve noticed that when people switch to Dauntless, it creates some of the same types. Erudite who switch to Dauntless tend to turn cruel and brutal. Candor who switch to Dauntless tend to become boisterous, fight-picking adrenaline junkies. And Abnegation who switch to Dauntless become . . . I don’t know, soldiers, I guess. Revolutionaries.

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    About when to let others sacrifice themselves for you, even if its selfish. They say that if the sacrifice is the ultimate way for that person to show you that they love you, let them do it.

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    A breeze blows through the alley, pushing me to one side, and I think of scaling the Ferris wheel with Tobias. He kept me steady then. There is no one left to keep me steady now.

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

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

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    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.

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    All I want is to become someone new. In this case, Tobias Johnson, son of Evelyn Johnson. Tobias Johnson may have lived a dull and empty life, but he is at least a whole person, not this fragment of a person that I am, too damaged by pain to become anything useful.

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    All I want to say is that when you stop being delusional and start feeling desperate because you're too inept to figure this out on your own, you know who to come to.

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    All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter.

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

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    A lot can happen to a person's appearance in three months.

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    Al walks in, and I don't even have to ask him to help me, he just walks over and strips bedding with me. i will have to scrub the frame later. Al carries the stack of sheets to the trash and together we walk toward the training room. "Ignore him," Al says. "He's an idiot, and if you don't get angry, he'll stop eventually.

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    An artist gives. Gives visually, gives through courses, or with free advice, through generosity of spirit and through a need to share.

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    And don't pay attention to Christina. Your face doesn't look that bad." He smiles a little. "I mean, it looks good. It always looks good. i mean--you look brave. Dauntless." His eyes skirt mine, and he scratches the back of his head. The silence grows between us. It was a nice thing to say, but he acts like it means more than just words. I hope I am wrong. I could not be attracted to Al-- I could not be attracted to anyone that fragile. I smile as much as my bruised cheek will allow, hoping that will diffuse the tension.

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    And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite, intelligent but vain; the Amity, peaceful but passive; the Candor, honest but inconsiderate; the Abnegation, selfless but stifling.

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

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

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    And I provide much- needed eye candy.

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    And now that you are out? How does the world seem to you?" he says. "Mostly the same," I say. "People are just divided by different things, fighting different wars.

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    And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.

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    Any idiot can stand in front of a target," I say. "It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall is a sign of cowardice" "Then it should be easy for you," Eric sys. "If you're willing ot take his place.

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    Aren’t you going to ask me if I’m all right?” I say. “No, I’m pretty sure you’re not all right.” He shakes his head. “I’m going to ask you not to make any decisions until we’ve talked about it.

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    Are you asking me to undress, Tris?' A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially

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    Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine.

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    As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.

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    A sob racks my body again, and he wraps his arms around me so tightly I find it difficult to breathe, but it doesn't matter. My dignified weeping gives way to full-on ugliness, my mouth open and my face contorted and sounds like a dying animal coming from my throat. If this continues I will break apart, and maybe that would be better, maybe it would be better to shatter and bear nothing.

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    At first Eric stares at Four in silence. Four stares back.

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    At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet. I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.

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    Awkwardness aside, it's nice to be liked.

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    Beatrice," she says. "Beatrice, we have to run." She pulls my arm across her shoulders and hauls me to my feet. She is dressed like my mother and she looks like my mother, but she is holding a gun, and the determined look in her eyes is unfamiliar to me.

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

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    Be brave, Beatrice. I love you.

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

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

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    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)

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    Before we sit down, he puts his mouth next to my ear and says, “I like your hair that way.

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    Before I chose Dauntless...I felt assured of my long lifespan, if nothing else. Now there are no reassurances except that where I go, I go because I choose to.

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    Before she got here everything had stalled inside me, and every morning I was just moving toward nighttime.

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    Being honest doesn't mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.

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    Being selfless is not that different from being brave. It is when you are selfless that you are the bravest.

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    But Christina and I are not people who cry together; we're people who fight together. SO I hold my tears in.

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    But I killed a man just like my mother did. David says it’s okay because I didn’t mean to, and because he was about to kill that little kid. But I’m pretty sure my mom didn’t mean to kill my dad, either, so what difference does that make, meaning or not meaning to do something? Accident or on purpose, the result is the same, and that’s one fewer life than there should be in the world.

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    But maybe what I saw as fearless was actually fear under control.

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

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    But now I’m wondering if I need it anymore, if we ever really need these words, “Dauntless,” “Erudite,” “Divergent,” “Allegiant,” or if we can just be friends or lovers or siblings, defined instead by the choices we make and the love and loyalty that binds us.

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    "But please, when you see an opportunity..." He presses his hand to my cheek, cold and strong, and tilts my head up so I have to look at him. His eyes glint. They almost look predatory. "Ruin them.

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    But that wasn´t the first time I ever saw her. I saw her in the hallways at school, and at my mother’s false funeral, and walking the sidewalks in the Abnegation sector. I saw her, but I didn’t see her; no one saw her the way she truly was until she jumped. I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.

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

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    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.

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    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.