Veronica Roth Quotes

My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldn’t belong there, among people who give without thinking and care without trying.

Fear, she says, is more powerful than pain.

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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.

Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.

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

So, the thing we’re all not talking about, he says. He gestures to me. You almost died, a sadistic pansycake saved you, and now we’re all waging some serious war with the factionless as allies.Pansyca...

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...

I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.

I am your instructor, he says.My name is Four.Christina asks, Four? Like the number?Yes, Four says. Is there a problem?No.Good. We're about to go into the Pit, which you will someday learn to love. It...

My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it.

Sometimes I see him as just another person, and sometimes I feel the sight of him in my gut, like a deep ache.

I would rather be dead than empty

It isn't the height that scares me - the height makes me feel alive with energy, every organ and vessel and muscle in my body singing at the same pitch.Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something a...

The floor is solid metal in some places and metal grating in others. Everything smells like rotting garbage and fire.Don't say I never took you anywhere nice, Peter says.Wouldn't dream of it, I say.

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...

I’m not important. Everyone will do just fine without me, I say.Who cares about everyone? What about ?

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.

I read somewhere, once, that crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion. I...

Lynn, she saved half our faction from stuff, says Marlene, tapping the bandage on her arm from where the Dauntless traitors shot her. Well, half of half of our faction.In some circles they call that...

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 he...

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...