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Veronica Roth Quotes - Page 5

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

...there is power in self-sacrifice.

...there is power in self-sacrifice.

Sacrifice, Self, Selflessness

I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart.

Laughter, Light, Strange Places

I've done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.

Writing, Sleep, Needs

Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.

Distance, Tobias, Infuriating

Veronica Roth (2013). “Allegiant (Divergent Trilogy, Book 3)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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.

Tobias, Being True, Feels

I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

Weakness, Cowardice, Cruelty

She can't possibly be me, though she moves when I move

Moving

Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent”, p.77, HarperCollins UK

I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving through the world. There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand

Moving, Mind, Important

That's what love does. When it's right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.

Doe

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

Sad, Mother, Missing Someone

I know that I'll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the teachers and librarians that I interact with.

Teacher, Writing, Long

I met him while I was imprisoned," I say, and my voice sounds far away even to me. "I was just curious." "I wouldn't judge him too harshly," says Fernando. "Jeanine can be extraordinarily persuasive to those who aren't naturally suspicious. I have always been naturally suspicious." ... "Yeah," I say. "So have I.

Voice, Judging, Sound

The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me.

Hate, Fate, People

It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.

Ideas, Down And, Size

I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.

Dog, Rip, Lying

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

Mean, Want, Honest

You can't be fearless, remember? Because you still care about things. About your life.

Fearless, Care, Remember

We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.

Fear, Believe, Preparation

Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Trilogy”, p.45, HarperCollins UK

How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?

Strong, Hurt, Broken

But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.

Fall, Kissing, Thinking

For a few minutes we kiss, deep in the chasm, with the roar of water all around us. And we rise, hand in hand, I realize that if we had both chosen differently, we might have ended up doing the same thing, in a safer place, in gray clothes instead of black ones.

Kissing, Clothes, Hands

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

Noise, Guilty, Refuge

The opinions of others cannot damage you.

Damage, Opinion

People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.

Believe, Heart, People

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

Knowledge And Power, Evil, Knowledge Is Power

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