Veronica Roth, Insurgent Quotes

Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.

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

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

I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.

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.

How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another.

I also don't believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much like an Erudite afterlife to me, all accuracy and no feeling.

I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.

You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?

I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

Ingenuity requires creativity.

It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered.

I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice.""What Ch

I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice.""What Choice?", and... I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision."

Because inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom.. and as hard as I try, I cannot kill it.

I can pretend to be brave, but I'm not

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

So you’re her brother?” says Lynn. “I guess we know who got the good genes.”I laugh at the expression on Caleb’s face, his mouth drawn into a slight pucker and his eyes wide.

How do you stop conflict without conflict?

I fit my mouth to his and he tastes like water and smells like fresh air. I drag my hand from his neck to the small of his back and put it under his shirt. He kisses me harder.

Instead I take the lead, Tobias silent at my side, and though he does not touch me, he steadies me.

And what this is, I realize, is life. I don't want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I've been trying to claw my way back to them, and now I am so close and he is telling me not to.

And there were some things I didn't know I had until I lost them.

Sleep, " he says. "I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.""With what?""My bar hands, obviously."In the moments before i drift off to sleep, i hear him whisper, "I love you, Tris.

Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you, " I say. "Controlling you is.

I am afraid that if I start to sob, I will never stop until I shrivel up like a raisin.

No, I just thought I'd shoot bullets out of my nose

I shower in the dark, barely able to tell soap from conditioner, and tell myself that I will emerge new and strong, that the water will heal me.

Mockery is childish. It does not become you.

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.

Fear, ” she says, “is more powerful than pain.

Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it.