Top 500 Veronica Roth Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.”

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102. “We are not the same. But we are, somehow, one.”

— Veronica Roth

103. “A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.”

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104. “Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.”

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105. “What is wrong with you?? I shake my head. ‘Pull it together.’ And that’s what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up and in like a shoelace. I feel suffocated, but at least I feel strong.”

— Veronica Roth

106. “I feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.”

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107. “I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity.”

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108. “She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love, not misplace disgust for another person’s genetics.”

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109. “I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.”

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110. “It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she’s gone. She’s gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it’s all I can do.”

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111. “Lies require commitment.”

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112. “We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.”

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113. “Intelligence is a gift, not a right. It must be wielded not as a weapon but as a tool for the betterment of others.”

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114. “I started writing because I decided I was too old to play pretend in the backyard. Then I found that I could create those imaginary worlds on the page.”

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115. “Four: Be brave Tris. The first time is always the hardest.”

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116. “That you’re whole, that you’re worth loving, that you’re the best person I’ve ever known.”

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117. “Soft hearts make the universe worth living in.”

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118. “Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.”

— Veronica Roth

119. “Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.”

— Veronica Roth

120. “We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.”

— Veronica Roth

121. “That’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.”

— Veronica Roth

122. “It’s Not sacrifice if it’s someone else’s life you’re giving away, it’s just evil.”

— Veronica Roth

123. “How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me – the boy whose real name is powerful enough to keep us alive in a train car full of enemies?”

— Veronica Roth

124. “I want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead.”

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125. “Sarcasm is always at someone’s expense.”

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126. “Embrace the uncertainty.”

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127. “Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn’t. It isn’t.”

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128. “I like to think I’m helping them by hating them. I’m reminding them that they aren’t God’s gift to humankind.”

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129. “Sometimes I see him as just another person, and sometimes I feel the sight of him in my gut, like a deep ache.”

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130. “People talk about the pain of grief, but I don’t know what they mean. To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every sensation dulled.”

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131. “Every tattoo I got with them is a mark of their friendship, and almost every time I have laughed in this dark place was because of them. I don’t want to lose them. But I feel like I have already.”

— Veronica Roth

132. “Did you just call me BEATRICE?”

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133. “The opinions of others cannot damage you.”

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134. “You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.”

— Veronica Roth

135. “She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.”

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136. “What’s worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?”

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137. “I do trust you, is what I want to say. But it isn’t true – I didn’t trust him to love me despite the terrible things I had done. I don’t trust anyone to do that, but that isn’t his problem; it’s mine.”

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138. “If we stay together, I’ll have to forgive you over and over again, and if you’re still in this, you’ll have to forgive me over and over again too. So forgiveness isn’t the point. What I really should have been trying to figure out is whether we were still good for each other or not.”

— Veronica Roth

139. “Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.”

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140. “She is well practiced in the art of losing herself.”

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141. “I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren’t all that different. All your life you’ve been training to forget yourself, so when you’re in danger, it becomes your first instinct.”

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142. “To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing – the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.”

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143. “I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no choice in the matter afterward. And maybe that’s tue of beginnings, but it’s not true of this, now. 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

144. “But when you kill someone you love, the hard part is never over. It just gets easier to distract yourself from what you’ve done.”

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145. “I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.”

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146. “I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.”

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147. “I am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the brave. I suppose that now, I must become more than either.”

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148. “There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage – in controlling something, period.”

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149. “I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no choice in the matter afterward. And maybe that’s true of beginnings, but it’s not true of this, now.”

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150. “Nothing else is alright. But we are. -Tobias.”

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