I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I love you." He frowns. "Say it again." "Tobias," I say. "I love you. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I need to deny them the power to control me. I need to know I am stronger than they are.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I do not get to choose what she becomes just because I can't deal with who she is.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Christina and I don't speak, but I know our thoughts are the same, fixed on Uriah, on his last breaths.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I'll be your family now," he says. "I love you," I say. (…) He stares at me. I wait with my hands… — 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
“He wraps his arms around me and holds me tight for a few seconds. His breaths tickle my ear, and I close… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (...) But please, when you see… — 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
His eyes search the crowd until they find my face. My heartbeat lives in my throat; lives in my cheeks. "I still… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
This is what I wanted most to avoid: for my rises and falls to become Tobias's rises and falls. That's why I… — 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
You’re too important to just … die.” He shakes his head. He won’t even look at me—his eyes keep shifting across my… — 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
What do--" Tobias's voice. Tobias! "Oh my God. Oh--" "Spare me your blubbering, okay? Peter says. "She's not dead; she's just paralyzed.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Can I ask why you’re throwing knives at cheese?’ ‘Caleb came by to discuss something,’ Tobias says, leaning his head against the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I don't know how long it takes for me to realize it isn't going to happen, that she is gone. But when… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
All I want is to become someone new. In this case, Tobias Johnson, son of Evelyn Johnson. Tobias Johnson may have lived… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I just wanted to thank you' he says, his voice low. 'A group of scientists told you that my genes were damaged,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Tris," Tobias says, crouching next to me. His face is pale, almost yellow. There is too much I want to say. The… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
She believes that Tobias belongs to her now. She doesn't know the truth, that he belongs to himself. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Did you just make a joke, Tris? We should have you on painkillers more often if your going to start cracking jokes.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Behind her, the door to the stairwell opens, and Tobias steps out with Marcus and Caleb behind him, almost unnoticed. Almost, except… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Panic and terror aren't the only kinds of fear. There are deeper kinds, more terrible kinds. Apprehension and heavy, heavy dread.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I don’t know how long i tis before we get cold again, and huddle under the blanket together. -It’s getting more difficult… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
