Top 500 Veronica Roth Quotes (2023 Update)
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151. “Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice.”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

154. “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

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

— Veronica Roth

156. “You die, I die too.”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

162. “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

163. “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

164. “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

165. “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

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

— Veronica Roth

167. “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

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

174. “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

175. “Embrace the uncertainty.”

— Veronica Roth

176. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

179. “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

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

— Veronica Roth

181. “And is it selfish of me to crave victory, or is it brave?”

— Veronica Roth

182. “Half of bravery is perspective.”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

185. “You don’t always have to smack people in the face with how strong you are.”

— Veronica Roth

186. “I close my eyes. I don’t expect Four to reassure me, and he makes no effort to, but I feel better standing here than I did out there among the people who are my friends, my faction.”

— Veronica Roth

187. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

189. “But maybe what I saw as fearless was actually fear under control.”

— Veronica Roth

190. “But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost.”

— Veronica Roth

191. “Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.”

— Veronica Roth

192. “No factions? A world in which no one knows who they are or where they fit? I can’t even fathom it. I imagine only chaos and isolation.”

— Veronica Roth

193. “How can you fail a test you aren’t allowed to prepare for?”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

195. “I would be shocked by the lack of security if we were not at Amity headquarters. They often straddle the line between trust and stupidity.”

— Veronica Roth

196. “Take a person’s memories, and you change who they are.”

— Veronica Roth

197. “Since he saved me from the attack, I have associated his smell with safety, so as long as I focus on it, I feel safe now.”

— Veronica Roth

198. “I am still the person who would have died rather than kill you.”

— Veronica Roth

199. “Ser honesto no significa que digas todo lo que quieras, cuando quieras. Significa que lo que eliges decir es cierto.”

— Veronica Roth

200. “I know that I’ll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the teachers and librarians that I interact with.”

— Veronica Roth