“A of my parents floats into my head the moment I close my eyes. Once when I was about 11 I stopped… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“In that moment I’m able to accept the inevitability of how I feel, though not with joy. I need to talk to… — 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 Copy Share Image
You may have succeeded in shutting down the attack simulation, girl, but it was by luck alone, not skill. I would die… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“If they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“It must require bravery to be honest all the time. I wouldn't know.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Four leaving makes me nervous. Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Be brave, Tris," he whispers. "The first time is always the hardest." His eyes are the last thing I see.” — 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
I didn't realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Maybe forgiveness is just the continual pushing aside of bitter memories, until time dulls the hurt and anger, and the wrong is… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
He gives me a conflicted look and touches his lips to my forehead, right between my eyebrows. I close my eyes. I… — 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
“I was a man, afraid of the threat he posed to my character, to my future, to my identity.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Lynn, who is sitting on the next bunk, snorts. “I don’t see how he can be flirty, with everything that’s going on.”… — 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 don't know why I told him that. Maybe just because it's true, and tonight of all nights, is the time for… — Veronica roth 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 Copy Share Image
“Half of bravery is perspective. The first time I did this, it was one of the hardest things I had ever done.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
What did you do?” This time the question tears from my throat like a growl. I throw myself toward him… “What did… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I wait for a long time without anything changing. The room is still dark, the floor still cold and hard, my heart… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“By the time the fight dies down, my clothes are more paint-colored than black. I decide to keep the shirt to remind… — 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
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