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My 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 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 My Mother Quotes
- 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
- My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman
- My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable. — Brigitte Bardot
- My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled. — Drew Barrymore
- My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale… — Angela Bassett
- I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother. — Kate Beckinsale
- When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way… — Halle Berry
- My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would… — Halle Berry
- My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't… — Sophie Ellis Bextor