Top 500 Veronica Roth Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

152. “It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

154. “I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

156. “There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.”

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157. “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...”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

161. “He told me once to be brave, and though I have stood still while knives spun toward my face and jumped off a roof, I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.”

— Veronica Roth

162. “This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to.”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

164. “And I’m the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her.”

— Veronica Roth

165. “I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.”

— Veronica Roth

166. “Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage.”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

169. “You die, I die too.”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

171. “In order to have peace, we must first have trust.”

— Veronica Roth

172. “Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice.”

— Veronica Roth

173. “My first instinct is to push you until you break just to see how hard I have to press.”

— Veronica Roth

174. “I feel a thread tugging me again, but this time I know that it isn’t some sinister force dragging me toward death. This time I know it’s my mother’s hand, drawing me into her arms. And I go gladly into her embrace.”

— Veronica Roth

175. “My parents did love each other. Enough to forsake plans and factions. Enough to defy “faction before blood.” Blood before faction – no, love before faction, always. – Tris Prior.”

— Veronica Roth

176. “Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.”

— Veronica Roth

177. “In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life.”

— Veronica Roth

178. “Inquisitiveness is self-serving, Johanna. -Marcus Eaton.”

— Veronica Roth

179. “Peter leans forward and looks into my eyes. “The serum will go into effect in one minute,” he says. “Be brave, Tris.” My heart begins to race. Why would Peter tell me to be brave? Why would he offer any kind words at all?”

— Veronica Roth

180. “I do know who you are. I just needed to be reminded.”

— Veronica Roth

181. “Sometimes it isn’t fighting that’s brave, its facing the death you know is coming.”

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182. “I was so afraid that we would just keep colliding over and over again if we stayed together, and that eventually the impact would break me. But now I know I am like the blade and he is like the whetstone- I am too strong to break so easily, and I become better, sharper, every time I touch him.”

— Veronica Roth

183. “That’s one way of looking at it. I prefer to look at it another way – which is that if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever. And it will never change back.”

— Veronica Roth

184. “The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.”

— Veronica Roth

185. “Some people will always fear change. But we can’t indulge them.”

— Veronica Roth

186. “The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs.”

— Veronica Roth

187. “I don’t want to be just one thing. I want to be brave and selfless and intelligent and honest and kind.”

— Veronica Roth

188. “The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me.”

— Veronica Roth

189. “A Dauntless Ferris wheel wouldn’t have cars. You would just hang on tight with your hands, and good luck to you.”

— Veronica Roth

190. “There is a reason you don’t know all the things I know. -Marcus Eaton.”

— Veronica Roth

191. “Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives.”

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192. “And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.”

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193. “About when to let others sacrifice themselves for you, even if its selfish. They say that if the sacrifice is the ultimate way for that person to show you that they love you, let them do it.”

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194. “I slowly realized that perfectionism just not that important. What’s more important is to try to love the people around you. Whatever that means at a particular time is the best you can do.”

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195. “But Christina and I are not people who cry together; we’re people who fight together. SO I hold my tears in.”

— Veronica Roth

196. “Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person’s dating possibilities.”

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197. “I am a child. I am two feet tall, and asking if she loves me.”

— Veronica Roth

198. “A lot can happen to a person’s appearance in three months.”

— Veronica Roth

199. “You’re the one who has to live with your choice, everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.”

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200. “You think my first instinct is to protect you because you are small or a girl or a stiff, but you are wrong. My first instinct is to push you until you break, just to see how hard I have to press... but I resist it, because fear doesn’t shut you down, it wakes you up. I’ve seen it... it’s fascinating.”

— Veronica Roth