Top 500 Veronica Roth Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “And is it selfish of me to crave victory, or is it brave?”

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

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203. “Half of bravery is perspective.”

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

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

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206. “I might be in love with you. I’m waiting until I’m sure to tell you, though.”

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207. “I know what it is to become something you hate, I know how it hurts. But life is full of hurt. And your capacity for baring it is much greater than you believe.”

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

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209. “Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life.”

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210. “It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.”

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

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212. “Luck is simply a construct to make people believe they are in control of some aspect of their destinies.”

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213. “Some people believe that I will go nowhere, and maybe they’re right, but maybe they’re not.”

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

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215. “Suffer the fate, for all else is delusion.”

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216. “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.”

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217. “She is a woman of muscle twisted around bone.”

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218. “In the days that follow, it’s movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.”

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219. “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.”

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

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221. “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.”

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

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223. “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.”

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224. “An artist gives. Gives visually, gives through courses, or with free advice, through generosity of spirit and through a need to share.”

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225. “Fear God Alone.”

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

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

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228. “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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229. “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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230. “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.”

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

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232. “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.”

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233. “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.”

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234. “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.”

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235. “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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236. “Desperation can make a person do surprising things.”

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

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

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240. “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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241. “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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242. “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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243. “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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244. “You’re not a coward just because you don’t want to hurt people.”

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

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247. “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.”

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

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249. “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.”

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250. “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.”

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