“Panic and terror aren't the only kinds of fear. There are deeper kinds, more terrible kinds. Apprehension and heavy, heavy dread.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I've faced my fears so many times in simulations, but that doesn't mean I'm ready to face them in reality” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I ignore my fear. When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I didn't scream I wasn't afraid. I knew I was strong enough to survive it all.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“How many young men are afraid to carry a monster inside? It is assumed that a person fears others, he does not… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“There's a difference between not being afraid and acting in spite of fear.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
That's the first time I've ever said those words out loud, and now I hear how strange they are. How many young… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I clench my teeth as tears come. I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I'm not sure bravery is something you acquire more of with age, like wisdom --but maybe here, in Dauntless, bravery is the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I wonder if that fear still creeps up on her now though she worked so hard to face it—I wonder if fears… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I stare at him for a second. I can't help it. To me there's a difference between not being afraid and acting… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I ignore my fear,” he says. “When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn’t exist.” I stare at him for a second.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
You're afraid of heights,'I say. 'How do you survive in the Dauntless compound?' 'I ignore my fear,' he (Four) says. 'When I… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I open the door to the fear landscape room and flip open the small black box that was in my back pocket… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I am almost afraid of him. I don't know what to say or do around the erratic part of him, and it… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I have been attacked by crows and men with grotesque faces; I have been set on fire by the boy who almost… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Humming a little, she presses another electrode to my forehead and explains, “In some parts of the ancient world, the hawk symbolized… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“You think my first instinct is to protect you because you are small or a girl or a stiff, but you are… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I tick off each quality in my mind as he says it -- fear, low intelligence, dishonesty, aggression, selfishness. He is talking… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
That dot covers all the places we've ever been. You could cut that piece of land out of the ground and sing… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“You're afraid of heights," I say. "How do you survive in the Dauntless compound?" "I ignore my fear," he says. "When I… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Take away someone’s fear, or low intelligence, or dishonesty . . . and you take away their compassion. Take away someone’s aggression… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Simulation Tobias kisses my neck. I try to think. I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“You choose this moment to act like the Abnegation?” His voice fills the room and makes fear prickle in my chest. His… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Question," says Christina, leaning forward. "The leaders who were watching your fear landscape...they were laughing at something." "Oh?" I bite my lip… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Yeah. I can see what you bring out in him. You don’t know this because you’ve never experienced it, but Four without… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“You could just do the work, you know,' I say. 'You could make better decisions, make a better life.' 'Yeah, I could,'… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Two years ago," she says, "I was afraid of spiders, suffocation, walls that inch slowly inward and trap you between them,getting thrown… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“We believe that cowardice is to blame for the world's injustices. We believe that peace is hard-won, that sometimes it is necessary… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Tobias," I say anyway. My hands shake, but not from fear this time– from anger. "Where is he? What are you doing… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage… — Veronica Roth Copy Share
“I was beginning to feel that I had finally found a place to stay, a place that was not so unstable or corrupt or… — Veronica Roth Copy Share
“He acts so tough that he’s probably afraid of marshmallows and really bright sunrises or something. Overcompensating.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share
You always look like someone's sucked the life right out of you when something fascinates you. -Tris — Veronica Roth Copy Share
Don’t worry about me handling the pain," I say. "I’ve had a lot of practice. — Veronica Roth Copy Share
Soon I will honor my parents by dying as they died. and if all they believed about death was true, soon I will join… — Veronica Roth Copy Share
“Mas lembre-se, já agora, que por vezes as pessoas que oprimimos tornam-se mais poderosas do que nós gostaríamos.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share
“am aware of how little space there is between us—six inches at most. That space feels charged with electricity. I feel like it should… — Veronica Roth Copy Share
“Oh, good,” I say, a sour taste in my mouth. “Heroism is what I was focused on. Not, you know, trying not to die.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share
“Caleb frowns at him. "How old are you, anyway?" "Eighteen." "And you don't think you're too old to be with my little sister?" Tobias… — Veronica Roth Copy Share
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… — Veronica Roth Copy Share
In some parts of the ancient world, the hawk symbolized the sun. Back when I got this, I figured if I always had the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share
