Top 500 Veronica Roth Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “I frown at him. How does he know all this information? And why, after two years of avoiding becoming a Dauntless leader at all costs, is he suddenly acting like one?”

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452. “Christina,’i say,’The factionless have all the guns.”

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453. “Grabbing hold of facts in the midst of shock is very Erudite of him.”

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454. “He looks like a man who has spent most of his life frowning.”

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455. “Relax Beatrice, I’ve driven a car before.? MARCUS ‘I’ve done a lot of things before, but that doesn’t mean I’m any good at them!’ TRIS.”

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456. “He should be the one to die, part of me thinks. I don’t want to lose him, another part argues. I don’t know which part to believe.”

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457. “Someone shouts, “Enough!” and I think too much and nothing at all.”

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458. “I need the protection of seeming weak.”

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459. “In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is.”

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460. “I notice, however, that Peter only pretends to inject himself – when he presses the plunger down, the fluid runs down his throat, and he wipes it casually with a sleeve. I wonder what it feels like to volunteer to forget everything.”

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461. “He holds my face in both hands and kisses me back. I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored-for good, I hope.”

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462. “I have to admit that Christina is good – though I don’t like giving credit to Candor smart-mouths – and so is Peter – though I don’t like giving credit to future psychopaths.”

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463. “By the time we leave, I have red lips and curled eyelashes, and I’m wearing a bright red dress. And there’s a knife strapped to the inside of my knee. This all makes perfect sense.”

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464. “Where’s Marcus, Destroyer of Lives, going to meet us?”

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465. “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 start it.”

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466. “I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.”

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467. “I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t still broken.”

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468. “Please. They’re like the Cult of Four.”

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469. “They say that if the sacrifice is the ultimate way for that person to show you that they love you, you should let them do it.”

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470. “I don’t believe it is more important to move forward than to know the truth.”

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471. “Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life.”

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472. “It’s not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.”

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473. “I can’t tell him I need him. I can’t need him, period – or really, we can’t need each other, because who knows how long either of us will last in this war?”

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474. “If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.”

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475. “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 I have lost control of what I have become.”

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476. “There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.”

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477. “Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human.”

— Veronica Roth

478. “It’s strange to see people you don’t know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks.”

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479. “If you see someone in trouble, you should help them. Experiment or not.”

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480. “She believes that Tobias belongs to her now. She doesn’t know the truth, that he belongs to himself.”

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481. “The division is based on knowledge, based on qualifications – but as I learned from the factionless, a system that relies on a group of uneducated people to do its dirty work without giving them a way to rise is hardly fair.”

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482. “But there’s so much that was a lie, it’s hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.”

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483. “That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel.”

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484. “I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.”

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485. “This is what I wanted most to avoid: for my rises and falls to become Tobias’s rises and falls. That’s why I can’t let him step in to defend me now.”

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486. “I shift from one foot to the other, trying to get a good look at him. When I finally do, I look away. His eyes were already on me, probably drawn by my nervous movement.”

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487. “So you’re her brother? Says Linn. I guess we know who got the good genes.”

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488. “The gun goes off. I fall.”

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489. “Which means that in order to defeat her, I have to think of a way to defeat myself. And how can I be a better fighter than myself, if she knows the same strategies I know, and is exactly as resourceful and clever as I am?”

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490. “It’s like he knows, he knows I have a thing for her.”

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491. “Yeah, well, we’re all afraid.” I sighed. “The angry more than most, I think.”

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492. “He moves his thumb in a slow circle over the back of my hand. It is meant to comfort me, but it frustrates me instead. I need to talk to him. I need to look at him.”

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493. “Four sets his hand on my back and says, “Welcome to Dauntless.”

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494. “A soft heart was a gift, whether given easily or with great reluctance. I would never take it for granted again.”

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495. “When he touches me, I feel like everywhere his skin meets mine is changed by the connection. It sends a thrill through my stomach. Not just fear. Something else, too. A wanting.”

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496. “In other words, magic is a mirror. It reflects us back to ourselves, and we may not always like what we see.”

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497. “We don’t need you as an ally. We’re Dauntless. -Tori.”

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498. “You sadistic pansycake.”

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499. “Four grabs a bar with each hand and pulls himself up, easy, like he’s sitting up in bed. But he is not comfortable or natural here – every muscle in his arm stands out. it is a stupid thing for me to think when I am one hundred feet off the ground.”

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500. “I was still afraid of him, I knew, but in a different way – I was no longer a child, afraid of the threat my terrifying father posed to my safety. I was a man, afraid of the threat he posed to my character, to my future, to my identity.”

— Veronica Roth