Courageous? Courageous would have been admitting weakness and leaving Dauntless, no matter what shame accompanied it. Pride is what killed Al, and… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
He told me once to be brave, and though I have stood still while knives spun toward my face and jumped off… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
He smiles in my memory. A curled lip. Straight teeth. Light in his eyes. Laughing, teasing, more alive in memory than I… — Veronica Roth Alive 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
It's wrong," he says. "It doesn't matter if your parents are in a better place, they aren't here with you, and that's… — Veronica Roth Better place Copy Share Image
“WE BELIEVE in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives on person to stand up for another WE BELIEVE in… — Veronica Roth Bravery Copy Share Image
“The glass room above the Pit is full of Dauntless, some of them walking the ropes above our heads, some talking and… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I can't kill him. I am not sure if I love him; I'm not sure if that's why. But I am sure… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I pull my foot back again, but Four's hands clamp around my arms, and he pulls me away from her with irresistible… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
What did you do?” I mumble. He is just a few feet away from me now, but not close enough to hear… — Veronica Roth Decision Copy Share Image
“A brave man acknowledges the strengths of others, a brave man never surrenders--the honorable kind and the ruthless kind." "and is it… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
But now I’m wondering if I need it anymore, if we ever really need these words, “Dauntless,” “Erudite,” “Divergent,” “Allegiant,” or if… — Veronica Roth Choices Copy Share Image
I was so afraid that we would just keep colliding over and over again if we stayed together, and that eventually the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Most of the time I can tell when people are lying, and this must be a lie, because Tris is still alive,… — Veronica Roth Alive 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 Boys Copy Share Image
She'll have to get over it, then. Are you going to let her drop out of Dauntless for a stupid reason like… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“A Stiff, the first to jump? Unheard of.” “There’s a reason why she left them, Lauren,” he says. His voice is deep,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Oh, so it's not enough that I told you; it has to be in the right setting?" I raise my eyebrows. "Next… — Veronica Roth Brew Copy Share Image
If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's… — Veronica Roth Conflict Copy Share Image
“Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind. Marcus is not good or… — Veronica Roth Bravery Copy Share Image
I stare at him. I feel my heartbeat everywhere, even in my toes. I feel like doing something bold, but I could… — Veronica Roth Care Copy Share Image
I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Mockery is childish, Beatrice,' She says. 'It does not become you'. 'Mockery is childish, Beatric,' I repeat in my best imitation of… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I know that I'll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the… — Veronica Roth Adults Copy Share Image
“They don’t want people to listen, they want people to agree,” I reply. “And you shouldn’t bully people into agreeing with you.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I pause a second. He doesn't look at me the way Will, Christina, and Al sometimes do - like I am too… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“It takes me five rounds to hit the middle of the target, and when I do, a rush of energy goes through… — Veronica Roth Eyes wide open Copy Share Image
Relax Beatrice, I've driven a car before.' MARCUS 'I've done a lot of things before, but that doesn't mean I'm any good… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Because inside me is a beast that… — Veronica Roth Animals Copy Share Image
“our minds move in a dozen different directions. We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders.… — Veronica Roth Different directions Copy Share Image
The Amity Established this place as a safe house. No conflict allowed." "The Amity will have trouble enforcing that policy," says Marcus.… — Veronica Roth Conflict Copy Share Image
I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The only reason I haven't shot you yet is because he's the one who should get to do it," I say. "Stay… — Veronica Roth Care Copy Share Image
“I prefer to look at it another way-which is that if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time,… — Veronica Roth Allegiant Copy Share Image
I know that I am birdlike, made narrow and small as if for taking flight, built straight-waisted and fragile. But when he… — Veronica Roth Bears Copy Share Image
No one's perfect," I whisper. "It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it." I… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“So you’re her brother?” says Lynn. “I guess we know who got the good genes.” I laugh at the expression on Caleb’s… — Veronica Roth Brotherhood Copy Share Image
I'm surprised you know that," I say quietly, " since you left halfway through my one and only fight." "It wasn't something… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I have done bad things. I can't take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
