Veronica Roth Quotes

When someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.

I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family.And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior

He still smiles all the time, but now his smiles look like they're made out of water, about to drip down his face.

Sometimes I feel like we are the same, but sometimes, like right now, I feel the separation between our personalities like I've just run into a wall.

The tunnel is lit at long intervals, so in the dark space between each dim lamp, I fear that I am lost until a shoulder bumps mine. In the circles of light I am safe again.

Mockery is childish. It does not become you.

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.

Maybe there is some Abnegation in everyone. Well in everyone but Peter."-Tris Prior

Yeah 'cause throwing knives at a girk is totally Going to get her to like you. #Tobiaslogic

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

I like to hurt people too. I can make the cruelest choice. The difference is, sometimes I don't, and you always do, and that makes you evil.

I can't imagine it's easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feelings are resolved.

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

But a person can only keep reality - and anger - at bay for so long before the truth comes back again.

Some of my anger has faded, but it isn't hard to call back. All I have to do is think about how cold the air was and how loud the laughter was. Look at her. She's a child.

I still want to be angry, but I have to let my anger go.

(...) a man encased in ice, his eyes hard and his voice like a frosty exhale.

- It doesn't do anything obvious. But it might be able to do something in here. - Then she touched her hand to her heart. - Beautiful things sometimes do.

no wonder you left."Yeah, " i say, rolling my eyes. " It was just because of the food.

Damn, ' someone behind me says. 'I was hoping we would get to scrape some Stiff pancake off the pavement later.

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

If we're afraid to be ourselves, then who are we? Where's there left to hide?But if we could concur that fear, we just might be strong, powerful. We just might be unstoppable.

You're the one who has to live with your choice, " she says. "Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.

It's not often you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest parts of someone. It's not comfortable when you do.

(...) I do want to leave, in the desperate way that an animal wants to escape a trap. Wild and rabid. Ready to gnaw through bone.

She is a woman of muscle twisted around bone.

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.

Aren’t you going to ask me if I’m all right?” I say.“No, I’m pretty sure you’re not all right.”He shakes his head. “I’m going to ask you not to make any decisions until we’ve talkedabout it.

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

I can't leave her now. I like her too much. There, I said it. But I won't say it again.

If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned it from anyone.

It’s getting more difficult to be wise, ” he says, laughing into my ear.I smile at him. “I think that’s how it’ssupposed to be.

Honor, ” I said with a snort. “Honor has no place in survival.

The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was risking when she risked her life."pg 337

Stupid. Why do people want to pretendthat death is sleep? It isn’t. It isn’t

I think I speak for everyone, " he says, "when I say you have earned the title of Dauntless".

Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, it's facing the death you know is coming.

Now it seems like no matter what I decide, I'll be betraying someone.

maybe here, in dauntless, bravery is the highest form of wisdom. the acknowledgement that life can and should be lived without fear

The only reason I haven't shot you yet is because he's the one who should get to do it, " I say. "Stay away from him or I'll decide I no longer care.

I'll only go if there's cake.~Tobias "Four

This is supposed to be a lighthearted session of symbolic document destruction, not a political debate.

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

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.

I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding,

I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding.

...something important is lost if this man has been forced to deny his own nature.

You know, ' he said, the condition of sourness--or monstrousness, as you might call it--doesn't have to be permanent.'P189

Some people might leave you, ' he said, for once ignoring a joke in favor of something real. 'But it doesn't mean you're worth leaving. It doesn't mean that at all.

This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to.