“But my mother would tell me that people are flawed and I should be lenient with them.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“My mother wasn’t a fool,” I say. “She just understood something you didn’t. That it’s not sacrifice if it’s someone else’s life… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
feel Tobias brushing my hair back before the first simulation. I hear him telling me to be brave. I hear my mother… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“When she’s close enough, she extends her hand. “Hello, my name is Natalie. I’m Beatrice’s mother.” Beatrice. That name is so wrong… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
My mother told me once that we can't survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without a faction… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“My mother was from here. I can feel her in the walls, in the air. I can feel her settled inside me,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Color fills her cheeks, and I think it again: that Johanna Reyes might still be beautiful. Except now I think that she… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I wasn't good enough for abnegation," I say, "and I wanted to be free. So I chose Dauntless." "Why weren't you good… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
But that wasn´t the first time I ever saw her. I saw her in the hallways at school, and at my mother’s… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
But I killed a man just like my mother did. David says it’s okay because I didn’t mean to, and because he… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
When i get home, I sit on the front step and take deep breaths of the cool spring air for a few… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Beatrice," she says. "Beatrice, we have to run." She pulls my arm across her shoulders and hauls me to my feet. She… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Except now I think that she isn’t just beautiful in spite of the scar, she’s somehow beautiful with it, like Lynn with… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
She walks away, and I am too stunned to follow her. At the end of the hallways she turns and says, "Have… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I was angry with him before. I’m not really sure why. Maybe I was just angry that the world had become such… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Should i even bother scanning the crowd for my parents? I could turn around and go back to the dormitory. Then I… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
When I look at him, I don't see the cowardly young man who sold me out to Jeanine Matthews, and i don't… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
You are far less likely to soil your pants and cry for your mother if you’re prepared to defend yourself. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I feel a thread tugging me again, but this time I know that it isn’t some sinister force dragging me toward death.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I breathe in. The water will wash my wounds clean. I breathe out. My mother submerged me in water when I was… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Eric called Al's suicide brave, and he was wrong. My mother's death was brave. I remember how calm she was, how determined.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“She kisses my cheek and slides the panel over the mirror. I think my mother could be beautiful, in a different world.… — 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
