I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Tris-"Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
He should be the one to die, part of me thinks. I don't want to lose him, another part argues. I don't… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I'm sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what's wrong with me. I want it to be over.… — 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
All I want to say is that when you stop being delusional and start feeling desperate because you're too inept to figure… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
My mother told me once that we can't survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without a faction… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
They try to make you think they care about what you do but they don't. They don't want you to act a… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I don’t know what world you live in, but in mine, people only do things for you for one of two reasons.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
You're more than Dauntless," he says in a low voice. "But if you want to be just like them, hurling yourself into… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn’t some faction archetype. But the Tris who’s trying… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I can't force you. I can't make you want to survive this." He pulls me against him and runs his hand over… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I don't understand', I say,'why they care what I think, as long as I'm acting how they want me to.' 'You're acting… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I don't want to try to live up to someone who's created something so incredible. I'm just trying to focus on what… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Why did you do it?" I say. "You want me dead. You were willing to do it yourself! What changed?" He presses… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Because there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I do trust you, is what I want to say. But it isn't true -- I didn't trust him to love me… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Looks like someone had a mood swing.” She rolls her eyes. “Like you don’t want to know what his fears are. He… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Out of my peripheral vision, I see Four shove the door open and walk out. Apparently this fight isn't interesting enough for… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I don't really control the story. I just let it go where it wants to go. I have no idea what's going… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that's really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Is there any other way to Erudite headquarters?" I say. "Not that I now of," says Cara. "Unless you want to jump… — 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
In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to be strong and make… — 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
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
