All Veronica Roth Quotes
- I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers. Answers
- I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it. Allow
- It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift. Cannot Earn
- As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground.… Abandon
- I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different. All your life you've been training to forget yourself, so when you're in… All
- Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge. Challenge
- You know what mom told me once? She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to… Able
- What makes you different, makes you dangerous. Dangerous
- I also don't believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much like an Erudite… Accuracy
- In 'Insurgent' we realise how large the world really is Inspirational
- Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice. Been
- There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have… Brave
- No need to continually insist upon your unshakable masculinity. Continually
- People, even genetically damaged people, make choices. That’s what matters.’ Choices
- All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter. All
- I've done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write. Done Without
- Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special. Actually Reading
- There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of… Divergent
- It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I… Down
- When you're a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that's really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and… Book
- I love 'Harry Potter.' I'm a huge nerd - I would dress up if I could. Dress
- If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it. Became
- I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth. Been
- If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there… Actually Succeed
- Who cares about everyone? What about me? Care