Top 500 Veronica Roth Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.”

— Veronica Roth

452. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

453. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

454. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

455. “At first Eric stares at Four in silence. Four stares back.”

— Veronica Roth

456. “All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter.”

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457. “If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it.”

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458. “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. As I’ve grown up, I’ve decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.”

— Veronica Roth

459. “Don’t say I never take you anywhere nice.”

— Veronica Roth

460. “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?”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

465. “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?”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

467. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

468. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

470. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

474. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

476. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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.”

— Veronica Roth

484. “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?”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

486. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

487. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

489. “The gun goes off. I fall.”

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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.”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

495. “You sadistic pansycake.”

— Veronica Roth

496. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

497. “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

498. “You can’t be fearless, remember? Because you still care about things. About your life.”

— Veronica Roth

499. “Sivbarat referred to a person’s dearest friend, someone so close that to lose them would be like losing a limb.”

— Veronica Roth

500. “I want to cry because something terrible happened, and I saw it, and I could not see a way to mend it.”

— Veronica Roth