Veronica Roth Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace
it.

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

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process.

My mother was Dauntless.

It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.

That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel.

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

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

I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice."
"What Choice?"
"Dauntless," he says. "I was born Abnegation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But I met her, and... I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision."

Her.

I'll be your family now," he says.
"I love you," I say. (....)
He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms for stability as he considers his response.
He frowns at me. "Say it again."
"Tobias," I say, "I love you.

Eric called Al's suicide brave, and he was wrong. My mother's death was brave. I remember how calm she was, how determined. It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option.

I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.

Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.

What do you think they're going to do to us when they find us guilty?" she says after a few minutes of silence have passed.
"Honestly?"
"Does now seem like the time for honesty?"
I look at her from the corner of my eye. "I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.