Top 500 Veronica Roth Quotes (2023 Update)
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101. “We believe in the ordinary acts of bravery.”

— Veronica Roth

102. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

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

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105. “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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106. “Lies require commitment.”

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

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

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109. “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?”

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

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

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

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113. “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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114. “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.”

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115. “Did you just call me BEATRICE?”

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

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117. “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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118. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

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

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120. “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

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

— Veronica Roth

122. “Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.”

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

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124. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

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

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

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

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

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

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133. “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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134. “Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.”

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135. “I’m sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what’s wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.”

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136. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

137. “A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.”

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138. “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

139. “It’s easy to be brave when they’re not my fears.”

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140. “Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way... But our minds move a dozen different directions. We can’t be confined to one way of thinking...”

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141. “But now, I am also learning this: WE can be mended. We mend each other.”

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

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143. “Everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.”

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144. “It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.”

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145. “It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.”

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

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147. “Humans can’t tolerate emptiness for long.”

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148. “Just do what you’re supposed to.”

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149. “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.”

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150. “What good is a prepared body if you have a scattered mind?”

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