Veronica Roth Quotes: 62

• We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

  Divergent

• Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

  Divergent

• I might be in love with you."He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.

  Divergent

• I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.

  Divergent

• Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.''Well,' he says, 'I would only go if there was cake.

  Divergent

• Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

  Divergent

• Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up

  Divergent

• A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.

  Divergent

• I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.

• 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.

  Insurgent

• I am selfish. I am brave.

  Divergent

• Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.

  Insurgent

• We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.

  Insurgent

• Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.

  Divergent

• Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.

  Divergent

• I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.

  Allegiant

• I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.

  Allegiant

• It must require bravery to be honest all the time.

  Divergent

• I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent.

  Divergent

• Moths,"repeats Will. "You're afraid of moths?" "Not just a cloud of moths,"she says, "like...a swarm of them. Everywhere. All those wings and legs and..."She shudders and shakes her head."Terrifying,"Will says with mock seriousness. "That's my girl. Tough as cotton balls." "Oh, Shut up.

  Divergent

• Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.

  Divergent

• Can you be a girl for a few seconds?" "I'm always a girl"I frown."You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girl"I twirl my hair around my finger. "Kay.

  Divergent

• Sleep,” he says. “I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.” “With what?” “My bare hands, obviously.

  Insurgent

• Got that gun?” Peter says to Tobias. “No,” says Tobias, “I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left it upstairs.

  Insurgent

• It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.

  Insurgent

• ...there is power in self-sacrifice.

  Divergent

• Who cares about pretty? I'm going for noticeable.

  Divergent

• No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.

  Insurgent

• Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into place. Peter freezes with his lips parted, the yawn dead in his mouth. "Wake. Up,"Four snaps. "You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.

  Divergent

• I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.

  Allegiant

• One ChoiceOne Choice, decided your friends.One Choice, defines your beliefs.One Choice, determines your loyalties - Forever.ONCE CHOICE CAN TRANSFORM YOU

  Divergent

• Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other

• I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.

  Allegiant

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

  Allegiant

• Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something." "Okay."He laughs shakily in my ear. "Why is your heart racing Tris?"I cringe and say, "Well, I...I barely know you. I barely know you and I'm crammed up against you in a box, Four, what do you think?"..."Maybe you were cut out for Candor,"he says, "because you're a terrible liar.

  Divergent

• The person you became with her is worth being.

  Allegiant

• You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.

  Allegiant

• Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating."He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake.

  Divergent

• 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.

  Allegiant

• What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are stillswollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.“Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.”She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an undergroundtunnel.

  Divergent

• We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest."He clears his throat. "I continually struggle with kindness.

  Divergent

• 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 them when they come around.

  Allegiant

• 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'?

  Divergent

• I love you"I say."I love you, too"he says. "I'll see you soon.

  Allegiant

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

  Allegiant

• Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives.

  Divergent

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

  Insurgent

• I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.

  Allegiant

• She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

  Divergent

• We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.

  Allegiant

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