I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
People make me key chains... someone attached a Dauntless symbol to a silver pen. That one is what I use to sign… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Somewhere inside me is a merciful, forgiving person. Somewhere there is a girl who tries to understand what people are going through,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“(...) I do want to leave, in the desperate way that an animal wants to escape a trap. Wild and rabid. Ready… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Yes," Marcus says. "I understand that you are concerned -- that you all are concerned. You had never heard of the Divergent… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Yeah, well," I say, "I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be." "That's not… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The division is based on knowledge, based on qualifications - but as I learned from the factionless, a system that relies on… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I never used to understand why people bothered to hold hands as they walked, but then he runs one of his fingertips… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“People tend to overestimate my character,' I say quietly, 'They think because I'm small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can't… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Few people who are born into Abnegation choose to leave it. When they do, we remember. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Sometimes,” he says, sliding his arm across my shoulders, “people just want to be happy, even if it’s not real. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I shield my eyes from the sun to see her cold look—the expression I saw in my mind even before I looked… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Dead people can be our heroes because they can't disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Stupid. Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn’t. It isn’t” — 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
You need to be passionate about the creative work that you're doing, but you need to be kind of emotionally separated from… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“(...) a man encased in ice, his eyes hard and his voice like a frosty exhale.” — 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 Image
“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 Image
“He acts so tough that he’s probably afraid of marshmallows and really bright sunrises or something. Overcompensating.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
You always look like someone's sucked the life right out of you when something fascinates you. -Tris — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Don’t worry about me handling the pain," I say. "I’ve had a lot of practice. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
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 Image
“Mas lembre-se, já agora, que por vezes as pessoas que oprimimos tornam-se mais poderosas do que nós gostaríamos.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
