Veronica Roth Quotes

And I provide much- needed eye candy.

You want to see people as extremes. Bad or good, trustworthy or not. I understand. It's easier that way. But that isn't how people work.

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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.

But I think that no matter how smart, people usually see what they're already looking for, that's all.

But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.

The goal of my life isn't just... to be happy.'Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?

There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.

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.

Nothing else is all right. His whisper tickles my cheek. But we are.

Really? I thought the transfers will go through Four’s landscape, says Uriah. Like he would let anyone do that, she says, snorting.Something inside me gets warm and soft. He let me go through it.

She tips her chin up and looks at me with that Abnegation stubbornness I know so well. She may have left them, but they are what’s making her strong.

Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

Sometimes pain is for the greater good.

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

Sarcasm is always at someone's expense.

I would rather be dead than empty

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

Whoa there, Tobias, says the man to my left. Weren't you raised a Stiff? I thought the most you people did was... graze hands or something.Then how do you explain all the Abnegation children? Tobias r...

That night we push our cots just a little closer together, and look into each other's eyes in the moments before we fall asleep. When he finally drifts off, our fingers are twisted together in the spa...

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

Okay, okay. I set my hand on top of his and guide it to my chest, so it’s right over my heart. Feel my heartbeat. Can you feel it?Yes.Feel how steady it is?It’s fast.Yes, well, that has nothing to do...