I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
They try to make you think they care about what you do but they don't. They don't want you to act a… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
A breeze blows through the alley, pushing me to one side, and I think of scaling the Ferris wheel with Tobias. He… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldn’t belong there, among people who give without thinking and… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Do the elevators work?" I ask Uriah, as quietly as I can. "Sure they do." says Zeke, rolling his eyes, "You think… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
My body rises with the water. Instead of kicking my feet to stay abreast of it, I push all the air from… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Is this Prior?" "In the flesh." "Why's he bleeding?" "Because he's an idiot." Zeke offers me a black jacket with a factionless… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Caleb runs up to me and folds me carefully in his arms. I breathe a sigh of relief. I thought I had… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Without thinking, I grab Al's arm and squeeze it as tightly as I can. I just need something to hold on to.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Which means that in order to defeat her, I have to think of a way to defeat myself. And how can I… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I look out the window again, taking slow, deep breaths into a body too tense to move. And as I stare out… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
You think my first instinct is to protect you. Because you're small, or a girl, or a Stiff. But you're wrong." He… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
So, the thing we’re all not talking about,” he says. He gestures to me. “You almost died, a sadistic pansycake saved you,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
My name is Tobias Eaton," Tobias says. "I don't think you want to push me off this train." The effect of the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
THE SERUM WEARS off five hours later, when the sun is just beginning to set. Tobias shut me in my room for… — 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
I cross my arms. "It was a two minute conversation." "I don't think a smaller time frame makes it less unwise." He… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
This concept could easily have gone awry. Stories about love tend to go that way sometimes. They wander into the realm of… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I don't want to try to live up to someone who's created something so incredible. I'm just trying to focus on what… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Just because they didn’t shoot you all in the head doesn’t mean their intentions were somehow honorable. Why do you think they… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
When I look at the Abnegation lifestyle as an outsider, I think it’s beautiful. When I watch my family move in harmony;… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
His fingers leave streaks of cold on my skin, invisible to the eye, and I think about wrapping his shirt around my… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“He must have stood there for a long time, making a list of all the terrible things he had done—almost killinng me… — 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
“Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Four grabs a bar with each hand and pulls himself up, easy, like he's sitting up in bed. But he is not… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Sometimes you just need to talk to someone who is detached from you. They just listen to what you tell them and… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I used to think that cruelty required malice, but that is not true. Jeanine has no reason to act out of malice.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I catch myself thinking 'Thank God For This' out of habit, and then I understand what he's so concerned about. What if… — 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
