Top 500 Veronica Roth Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Dead people can be our heroes because they can’t disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.”

— Veronica Roth

52. “It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.”

— Veronica Roth

53. “Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.”

— Veronica Roth

54. “Evil depends on where you’re standing.”

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55. “One choice can transform you!”

— Veronica Roth

56. “Being selfless is not that different from being brave. It is when you are selfless that you are the bravest.”

— Veronica Roth

57. “Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.”

— Veronica Roth

58. “It’s not a perfect situation. But when you have to choose between two bad options, you pick the one that saves the people you love and believe in most. You just do. Okay?”

— Veronica Roth

59. “But I think that no matter how smart, people usually see what they’re already looking for, that’s all.”

— Veronica Roth

60. “Reading is such a huge part of my life.”

— Veronica Roth

61. “It must require bravery to be honest all the time.”

— Veronica Roth

62. “Human reason can excuse any evil.”

— Veronica Roth

63. “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 purpose and no reason to live.”

— Veronica Roth

64. “No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.”

— Veronica Roth

65. “I fell in love with him. But I don’t just stay with him by default as if there’s no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.”

— Veronica Roth

66. “He stares at me, and I don’t look away. He isn’t a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive. Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.”

— Veronica Roth

67. “Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.”

— Veronica Roth

68. “Just because something is difficult doesn’t mean it’s worth doing.”

— Veronica Roth

69. “Learning how to think in the midst of fear is a lesson that everyone needs to learn.”

— Veronica Roth

70. “I ignore my fear. When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn’t exist.”

— Veronica Roth

71. “Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.”

— Veronica Roth

72. “My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That’s why we have to give power to those who do not want it.”

— Veronica Roth

73. “Two things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. It is my nature to expect the worst of them. And the second is that I am unexpectedly good with computers.”

— Veronica Roth

74. “I love ‘Harry Potter.’ I’m a huge nerd – I would dress up if I could.”

— Veronica Roth

75. “The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature – or at least what it has become.”

— Veronica Roth

76. “I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.”

— Veronica Roth

77. “I feel empty, not because of sadness, but because of relief, all the tension flowing out of me.”

— Veronica Roth

78. “Peace is restrained; this is free.”

— Veronica Roth

79. “My heart beats so hard it hurts, and I can’t scream and I can’t breathe, but I also feel everything, every vein and every fiber, every bone and every nerve, all awake and buzzing in my body as if charged with electricity. I am pure adrenaline.”

— Veronica Roth

80. “I have done bad things. I can’t take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.”

— Veronica Roth

81. “Do it fast, you pansycake.”

— Veronica Roth

82. “Those who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm.”

— Veronica Roth

83. “Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.”

— Veronica Roth

84. “I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart.”

— Veronica Roth

85. “Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart – I know. It is often in mine.”

— Veronica Roth

86. “We believe that peace is hard-won, That sometimes it is necessary to fight for peace. But more than that, we believe that Justice is more important than peace.”

— Veronica Roth

87. “It’s when you’re acting selflessly that you are at your bravest.”

— Veronica Roth

88. “Don’t confuse your grief with guilt.”

— Veronica Roth

89. “We believe in the ordinary acts of bravery.”

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90. “Yeah, sometimes life really sucks, but you know what I’m holding on for? The moments that don’t suck. The trick is to notice them when they come around.”

— Veronica Roth

91. “You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.”

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92. “I think about pressing myself against him, but I can’t, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.”

— Veronica Roth

93. “If Eric thinks I did something right, I must have done it wrong.”

— Veronica Roth

94. “Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.”

— Veronica Roth

95. “I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent.”

— Veronica Roth

96. “Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.”

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97. “I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.”

— Veronica Roth

98. “I respect you more than anyone. But right now I’m wondering what bothers you more, that I made a stupid decision or that I didn’t make your decision.”

— Veronica Roth

99. “I always appreciate people’s opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I’m writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it’s been good for me.”

— Veronica Roth

100. “Be brave, Beatrice. I love you.”

— Veronica Roth