“One thing I know: For helping me forget how awful the world is, I prefer her to alcohol.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Maybe now he thinks I’m stupid, or strange. Maybe it was worth it.” — 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
“If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“You’re the one who has to live whit your choice" she says. "Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter… — 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
“The hurts from my last day with my father are healed now, but I want to remember where they were; I want… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'" P244” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“The Amity exchange smiles. They are dressed comfortably in red or yellow. Every time I see them, they seem kind, loving, free.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“There is an art to Noavek bullshit," Cyra said as she muted the feed. "We're taught it from birth.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I don't know, I guess I agree with them. That if everyone would just keep learning about the world around them, they… — 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
“But then he stops at the door frame and says, It's 9:24. Telling me the time is a small act of betrayal-and… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Intentions are the only thing they care about. They try to make you think they care about what you do, but they… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“We're sorry for frightening you, Tris,' another voice says, 'but anonymity is integral to our operation. We mean you no harm.' 'Let… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt." We stay in the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Pain had a way of breaking time down. I thought about the next minute, the next hour. There wasn't enough space in… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Here, I've learned to defend myself, I've learned to be stronger, but one thing I haven't learned, won't let myself learn, is… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“And what this is, I realize, is life. I don't want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I've… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I sprinted down the alley, not fast enough to avoid the cold water rolling down my back, with a childlike shriek. I… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“My mother wasn't a fool," I say. "She just understood something you didn't. That it's not sacrifice if it's someone else's life… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“They'll care for each other, she says. That's what people do. I smile and close my eyes.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“It must require bravery to be honest all the time. I wouldn't know.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“If I unfocus my eyes, I see exactly what the Candor don't believe in-gray. Maybe Tobias and I don't believe in it… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need is… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I like to hurt people too. I can make the cruelest choice. The difference is, sometimes I don't, and you always do,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“. . . in the distance I hear a train rushing over the rails, but we are moving away from this place… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“If he is a coward, it isn't because he doesn't enjoy pain. It is because he refuses to act.” — 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
“I was beginning to feel that I had finally found a place to stay, a place that was not so unstable or… — 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
“The minutes I had left with him fall away like dead leaves pulled from branches.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“How many different kinds of ruin do you have to see, before you resign yourself to calling it all 'ruin'?” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Officially, of course, we're all to be treated the same, yes? But that is rarely put into practice.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
