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Mother Quotes by Veronica Roth
- Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least…
- Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.
- I breathe in. The water will wash my wounds clean. I breathe out. My mother submerged me in water when I was a baby, to…
- She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.
- To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing…
- Eric called Al's suicide brave, and he was wrong. My mother's death was brave. I remember how calm she was, how determined. It isn't just…
- feel Tobias brushing my hair back before the first simulation. I hear him telling me to be brave. I hear my mother telling me to…
- You are far less likely to soil your pants and cry for your mother if you’re prepared to defend yourself.
- Color fills her cheeks, and I think it again: that Johanna Reyes might still be beautiful. Except now I think that she isn't just beautiful…
- My mother told me once that we can't survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without a faction we have no…
- She walks away, and I am too stunned to follow her. At the end of the hallways she turns and says, "Have a piece of…
- Beatrice," she says. "Beatrice, we have to run." She pulls my arm across her shoulders and hauls me to my feet. She is dressed like…
- I wasn't good enough for abnegation," I say, "and I wanted to be free. So I chose Dauntless." "Why weren't you good enough?" "Because I…
- When i get home, I sit on the front step and take deep breaths of the cool spring air for a few minutes. My mother…
- I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my mother, and the…
- But that wasn´t the first time I ever saw her. I saw her in the hallways at school, and at my mother’s false funeral, and…
- Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now.
- I feel a thread tugging me again, but this time I know that it isn’t some sinister force dragging me toward death. This time I…
- When I look at him, I don't see the cowardly young man who sold me out to Jeanine Matthews, and i don't hear the excuses…
- I was angry with him before. I’m not really sure why. Maybe I was just angry that the world had become such a complicated place,…
- But I killed a man just like my mother did. David says it’s okay because I didn’t mean to, and because he was about to…
- I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like…
More Mother Quotes
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,… — Chinua Achebe
- Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one. — Margaret Atwood
- Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences… — Margaret Atwood
- Poverty is the mother of crime. — Marcus Aurelius
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman
- It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of… — Teresa of Avila
- I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this… — Teresa of Avila
- There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video. — Dan Aykroyd
- My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I… — Michele Bachmann