Veronica-roth Quotes by Veronica Roth

“The ability to think isn't exclusive to erudite”

— Veronica Roth

“One thing I know: For helping me forget how awful the world is, I prefer her to alcohol.”

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“She is a woman of muscle twisted around bone.”

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“Maybe there is some Abnegation in everyone, even if they don't know it.”

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“A husband should not discipline his wife, Johanna says.”

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“The minutes I had left with him fall away like dead leaves pulled from branches.”

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“Death could not erase her, she is permanent.”

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“It must require bravery to be honest all the time. I wouldn't know.”

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“The hurts from my last day with my father are healed now, but I want to remember where they were; I want…

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“Did you just make a joke, Tris? We should have you on painkillers more often if your going to start cracking jokes.”

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“Officially, of course, we're all to be treated the same, yes? But that is rarely put into practice.”

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“You’re the one who has to live whit your choice" she says. "Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter…

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“If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned…

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“How many different kinds of ruin do you have to see, before you resign yourself to calling it all 'ruin'?”

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“It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need is…

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“I like to hurt people too. I can make the cruelest choice. The difference is, sometimes I don't, and you always do,…

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“Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but i feel like when you believe something is truly a problem, you…

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“We're sorry for frightening you, Tris,' another voice says, 'but anonymity is integral to our operation. We mean you no harm.' 'Let…

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“Pain had a way of breaking time down. I thought about the next minute, the next hour. There wasn't enough space in…

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“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…

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“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…

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“I don’t know how long i tis before we get cold again, and huddle under the blanket together. -It’s getting more difficult…

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“You know, the kind of person who gets this tattoo is probably the kind that should keep it very quiet," she says,…

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“Behind her, the door to the stairwell opens, and Tobias steps out with Marcus and Caleb behind him, almost unnoticed. Almost, except…

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“Maybe Dauntless was formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals. But it has strayed far from them.…

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“He must have stood there for a long time, making a list of all the terrible things he had done—almost killing me…

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“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…

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“I sprinted down the alley, not fast enough to avoid the cold water rolling down my back, with a childlike shriek. I…

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You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.

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“Maybe now he thinks I’m stupid, or strange. Maybe it was worth it.”

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“Hey, Peter, I say. Remember what a target is?”

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“Stupid. Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn’t. It isn’t”

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“They'll care for each other, she says. That's what people do. I smile and close my eyes.”

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“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…

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“It's been so long since someone said my name that way, like it was a revelation and not a threat.”

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“I prefer to look at it another way-which is that if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time,…

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“If he is a coward, it isn't because he doesn't enjoy pain. It is because he refuses to act.”

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“But there is something appealing about it here too, a freedom, a refusal to belong to theses arbitrary categories we've made for…

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“. . . in the distance I hear a train rushing over the rails, but we are moving away from this place…

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“I feel uneasy. It's not often that you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest parts of someone. It's…

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