Top 500 Veronica Roth Quotes (2023 Update)
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251. “This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to.”

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252. “I don’t need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.”

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253. “I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.”

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254. “That is how it feels. Like everything between us is twisted together, friendship and love and family, so I cant tell the difference between any of them.”

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

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256. “We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar. I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.”

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257. “It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.”

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258. “I wipe my face with my sleeve, laughing so hard my stomach hurts. If my entire life is like this, loud laughter and bold action and the kind of exhaustion you feel after a hard but satisfying day, I will be content.”

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259. “Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can’t be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.”

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260. “La gente solo quiere ser feliz, aunque la felicidad no sea real.”

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261. “I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my mother, and the pain they bequeathed to me like a family heirloom, handed down from generation to generation. – Tobias Eaton.”

— Veronica Roth

262. “It would be stupid to confide your entire plan to one person. It’s infinitely smarter to give little pieces of it to each person working with you. That way, if someone betrays you, the loss isn’t too great.”

— Veronica Roth

263. “You chose us. Now we have to choose you.”

— Veronica Roth

264. “In some parts of the ancient world, the hawk symbolized the sun. Back when I got this, I figured if I always had the sun on me, I wouldn’t be afraid of the dark.”

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265. “One thing I know: For helping me forget how awful the world is, I prefer her to alcohol.”

— Veronica Roth

266. “I didn’t realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going.”

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267. “Ingenuity requires creativity.”

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268. “I know some things – I know that I’m not alone, that I have friends, that I’m in love. I know that I don’t want to die, and for me that’s something – more than I could have said a few weeks ago.”

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269. “You are far less likely to soil your pants and cry for your mother if you’re prepared to defend yourself.”

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270. “If you are really one of us, it won’t matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.”

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271. “You want to see people as extremes. Bad or good, trustworthy or not. I understand. It’s easier that way. But that isn’t how people work.”

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272. “I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.”

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273. “Few people who are born into Abnegation choose to leave it. When they do, we remember.”

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

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275. “And I don’t want to die anymore. I am up to the challenge of bearing the guilt and the grief, up to facing the difficulties that life has put in my path. Some days are harder than others, but I am ready to live each one of them. I can’t sacrifice myself, this time.”

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276. “Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn’t have this guilt – the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it, not even Tobias. Maybe I should not be so afraid of saying anything, because honesty will make me feel lighter.”

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

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278. “Los seres humanos en su conjunto no aguantan mucho tiempo siendo buenos; al final la maldad regresa para volver a envenenarnos.”

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279. “Beatrice. We should think of our family. But. But we must also think of ourselves.”

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280. “I am a Shotet. I am sharp as broken glass, and just as fragile. I tell lies better than I tell truths. I see all of the galaxy and never catch a glimpse of it.”

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281. “Fear is more powerful than pain.”

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282. “I should wonder what courage – which is the virtue they most value – has to do with a metal ring through your nostril.”

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283. “Siempre hay algo que se aprende, siempre se aprende algo importante.”

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284. “It’s not often real that you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest part of someone. It’s not comfortable what you do.”

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285. “Every faction has a serum,” Johanna says. “The Dauntless serum gives hallucinated realities, Candor’s gives the truth, Amity’s gives peace, Erudite’s gives death – ” At this, Tris visibly shudders, but Johanna continues as if it didn’t happen. “And Abnegation’s resets memory.”

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

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287. “I realize that the decision might be simple. It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great act of courage to choose Dauntless, and maybe just choosing one over the other will prove that I belong.”

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288. “We believe in bravery. We believe in taking action. We believe in freedom from fear and in acquiring the skills to force the bad out of our world so that the good can prosper and thrive. If you also believe in those things, we welcome you.”

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289. “His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate. He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.”

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290. “God Tris, are you even human?”

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291. “And I stand in the hallway, alone, grinning like an idiot.”

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292. “No need to continually insist upon your unshakable masculinity.”

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293. “I look up, and stop breathing. Eyes glitter in the darkness. Dark shapes sit in the car, more numerous than we are. The factionless.”

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294. “Now i remember why I chose Dauntless. Not because they were brave or anything. But because they were free.”

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295. “It was him or me. I chose me. But I feel dead too.”

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296. “I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can’t breathe.”

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297. “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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298. “I am wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, black shoes – new clothes, but beneath them, my Dauntless tattoos. It is impossible to erase my choices. Especially these.”

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299. “For a few minutes we kiss, deep in the chasm, with the roar of water all around us. And we rise, hand in hand, I realize that if we had both chosen differently, we might have ended up doing the same thing, in a safer place, in gray clothes instead of black ones.”

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300. “I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave.”

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