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.

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

About Author

Veronica Anne Roth (born August 19, 1988) is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her bestselling Divergent trilogy which has sold more than 35 million copies worldwide.

I kiss him as the train slides into unlit, uncertain land. I kiss him for as long as I want, for longer than I should, given that my brother sits three feet away from me.

I know some things--I know that I'm not alone, that I have friends, that I'm in love. I know that I don't want to die, and for me that's something--more than I could have said a few weeks ago.

I know that I am birdlike, made narrow and small as if for taking flight, built straight-waisted and fragile. But when he touches me like he can't bear to take his hand away, I don't wish I was any di...

Some people will always fear change. But we can't indulge them.

I pout my lower lip for a second, but then I grin as the pieces come together. why you like me! I exclaim. Because you're not very nice either! It makes so much more sense now.

We could visit him, suggests Will. But what would we say? 'I didn't know you that well, but I'm sorry you got stabbed in the eye'?

I was so afraid that we would just keep colliding over and over again if we stayed together, and that eventually the impact would break me. But now I know I am like the blade and he is like the whetst...

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.

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

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

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

If you throw yourself into danger for no reason again, you will have become nothing more than a Dauntless adrenaline junkie looking for a hit, and I'm not going to help you do it. He spits the words o...

It's like he knows, he knows I have a thing for her.

We believe in bravery. We believe in taking action. We believe in freedom from fear and in acquiring the skills to force the bad out of our world so that the good can prosper and thrive. If you also b...

Yeah, sometimes life really sucks, she says. But you know what I'm holding on for?I raise my eyebrows.She raises hers, too, mimicking me.The moments that don't suck, she says. The trick is to notice t...

Learning how to think in the midst of fear is a lesson that everyone needs to learn.

Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged.

My heart beats so hard it hurts, and I can't scream and I can't breathe, but I also feel everything, every vein and every fiber, every bone and every nerve, all awake and buzzing in my body as if char...