Top 500 Veronica Roth Quotes (2023 Update)
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201. “An artist gives. Gives visually, gives through courses, or with free advice, through generosity of spirit and through a need to share.”

— Veronica Roth

202. “I can’t leave now. I like her too much. There, I said it. But I won’t say it again.”

— Veronica Roth

203. “I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient.”

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204. “You nearly died today,? he says. ‘I almost shot you. Why didn’t you shoot me, Tris?’ ‘I couldn’t do that,’ I say. ‘It would have been like shooting myself.’ He looks pained and leans closer to me, so his lips brush mine when he speaks.”

— Veronica Roth

205. “Because you’re from Abnegation,” he says, “and it’s when you’re acting selflessly that you are at your bravest.”

— Veronica Roth

206. “I open my eyes. No, I was wrong; I didn’t jump off the roof because I wanted to be like the Dauntless. I jumped off because I already was like them, and I wanted to show myself to them. I wanted to acknowledge a part of myself that Abnegation demanded that I hide.”

— Veronica Roth

207. “People tend to overestimate my character,” I say quietly. “They think that because I’m small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can’t possibly be cruel. But they’re wrong.” I shift the gun three inches to the left and fire at his arm.”

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208. “I think of the motto I read in my Faction History textbook: Faction before blood. More than family, our factions are where we belong. Can that possibly be right?”

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209. “I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die, and we move on to the next dangerous thing. The sooner that lesson sinks in, the better chance I have at surviving initiation.”

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210. “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

211. “The power to make people fear you is the only power you need.”

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212. “Desperation can make a person do surprising things.”

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213. “I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.”

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214. “I laugh, mirthless, a mad laugh. I savor the scowl on her face, the hate in her eyes. She was like a machine; she was cold and emotionless, bound by logic alone. And I broke her.”

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215. “Eric called Al’s suicide brave, and he was wrong. My mother’s death was brave. I remember how calm she was, how determined. It isn’t just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option.”

— Veronica Roth

216. “All I want to say is that when you stop being delusional and start feeling desperate because you’re too inept to figure this out on your own, you know who to come to.”

— Veronica Roth

217. “Some days I feel like I’m still not okay. Some days I feel fine. Happy, even.”

— Veronica Roth

218. “I never used to understand why people bothered to hold hands as they walked, but then he runs one of his fingertips down my palm, and I shiver and understand it completely.”

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219. “His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can’t fill. And then time will pass, and the hole will be gone, like when an organ is removed and the body’s fluids flow into the space it leaves. Humans can’t tolerate emptiness for long.”

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220. “He touches my face, covering my cheeks with his hands, sliding his fingertips down my neck, fitting his fingers to the slight curve of my hips. I can’t stop.”

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

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222. “I stare at him. I feel my heartbeat everywhere, even in my toes. I feel like doing something bold, but I could just as easily walk away. I am not sure which option is smarter, or better. I am not sure that I care.”

— Veronica Roth

223. “You’re not a coward just because you don’t want to hurt people.”

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224. “My dear girl. I am his family. I am permanent. You are only temporary.”

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225. “To me there’s a difference between not being afraid and acting in spite of fear, as he does.”

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226. “I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint.”

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227. “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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228. “We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.”

— Veronica Roth

229. “La verdad es tan poderosa como un animal salvaje, e igual que este, no puede permanecer enjaulada.”

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230. “I am better off doing as abnegation taught me: turning away from myself, projecting always outward, and hoping that in whatever is next, I will be better than I am now.”

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231. “Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.”

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232. “He is not sweet or gentle or particularly kind. But he is smart and brave, and even though he saved me, he treated me like I was strong. That is all I need to know.”

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233. “I read somewhere, once, that crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion. I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity.”

— Veronica Roth

234. “I get the strange urge to hit my head against the wall. Other people’s sobs make me feel uncomfortable.”

— Veronica Roth

235. “They try to make you think they care about what you do but they don’t. They don’t want you to act a certain way. So you’re easy to understand. So you won’t pose a threat to them.”

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236. “My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldn’t belong there, among people who give without thinking and care without trying.”

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237. “His hand touches my waist, steadies me. The touch sends a shock through my body, and all my insides burn like his fingers ignited them. I pull close to him, pressing my body against his, and lift my head to kiss him.”

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238. “Can you tell me where to find Tobias’? I ask. When I imagine his face, affection for him bubbles up inside of me and all I want to do is kiss him. ‘Four, I mean. He’s so handsome, isn’t he? I don’t really understand why he likes me so much. I’m not very nice, am I?’ -Tris.”

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239. “It’s stupid to miss a thing when there are so many people to miss instead, but I miss this train already, and all the others that carried me through the city, my city, after I was brave enough to ride them. I brush my fingers over the car wall, just once, and then jump.”

— Veronica Roth

240. “I feel like someone is pressing me into a mold that does not fit my body, forcing me intothe wrong shape.”

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

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242. “I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did. I don’t.”

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243. “You know what mom told me once? She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil in ourselves, so we’re able to forgive them.”

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244. “I am brave, I am selfless, I am Divergent.”

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245. “No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know.”

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246. “I also don’t believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much like an Erudite afterlife to me, all accuracy and no feeling.”

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247. “I am too strong to break so easily, and I become better, sharper, every time I touch him.”

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248. “Because life is not fair, Albert. And the world is conspiring against you.”

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249. “Maybe forgiveness is just the continual pushing aside of bitter memories, until time dulls the hurt and anger, and the wrong is forgotten.”

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250. “Our eyes meet. I hear a train horn, so faint it could be wind whistling through an alleyway. But I know it when I hear it. It sounds like the Dauntless, calling me to to them.”

— Veronica Roth