Top 500 Veronica Roth Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “I don’t see any elderly people in the crowd. Are there any old Dauntless? Do they not last that long, or are they just sent away when they can’t jump off moving trains anymore?”

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

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303. “I am the instrument of my own destruction.”

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304. “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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305. “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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306. “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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307. “And I stand in the hallway, alone, grinning like an idiot.”

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308. “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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309. “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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310. “It was him or me. I chose me. But I feel dead too.”

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311. “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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312. “I will not be a pawn, not for my mother, not for my father, and not for them. I will not belong to anyone but myself.”

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313. “I didn’t choose the blood that runs in my veins, any more than you chose your fate. You and I, we’ve become what we were made to become.”

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314. “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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315. “Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.”

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316. “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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317. “There are no safe rooms, no safe truths, no safe secrets to tell.”

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318. “I get up, because I’m supposed to, but if it were up to me, I’d stay in my seat for the rest of time.”

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319. “I glance at Tris. She grins at me, then leans in to whisper something to Christina. “Are you here to help or what, Stiff?” I say.”

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

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321. “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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322. “God Tris, are you even human?”

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

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324. “It takes me five rounds to hit the middle of the target, and when I do, a rush of energy goes through me. I am awake, my eyes wide open, my hands warm.”

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

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326. “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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327. “Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life, community.”

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328. “Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.”

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329. “Soon I will honor my parents by dying as they died. and if all they believed about death was true, soon I will join them in whatever comes next.”

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330. “Or maybe we’ll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now.”

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331. “I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can’t stop. It would be like refusing to breathe.”

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332. “Why is your heart racing Tris?”

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333. “There’s really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of ‘Divergent,’ in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.”

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334. “Sometimes I still forget to look for the gentler parts of her. For so long all I saw was the strength, standing out like the wiry muscles in her arms or the black ink marking her collarbone with flight.”

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335. “I know that I am birdlike, made narrow and small as if for taking flight, built straight-waisted and fragile. But when he touches me like he can’t bear to take his hand away, I don’t wish I was any different.”

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336. “From one tyrant to another. That is the world we know, now.”

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337. “He kisses me again, more insistent this time, his hands squeezing my waist. His breaths, his body, my body, we are so close there is no difference.”

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338. “Blood is a strange color. It’s darker than you expect it to be.”

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339. “I hold the gun out from my body, my arms straight, just as Four taught me, when that was his only name. I used a gun like this to defend my father and brother from simulation-bound Dauntless. I used it to stop Eric from shooting Tobias in the head. It is not inherently evil. It is just a tool.”

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340. “I settle into their pace. The uniform pounding of feet in my ears and the homogeneity of the people around me makes me believe that I could choose this. I could be subsumed into Abnegation’s hive mind, projecting always outward.”

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341. “He smiles in my memory. A curled lip. Straight teeth. Light in his eyes. Laughing, teasing, more alive in memory than I m in reality. It was him or me. I chose me. But I feel dead too.”

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342. “I pause a second. He doesn’t look at me the way Will, Christina, and Al sometimes do – like I am too small and too weak to be of any use, and they pity me for it.”

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343. “You don’t have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can’t you see how stupid that is?”

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344. “Maybe it’s a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don’t really understand what ‘perfect’ is.”

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345. “He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife?”

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346. “I am a naturally curious person. -Tris.”

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347. “I’d rather eat out of a can than be strangled by a faction.”

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348. “But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.”

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349. “Who cares about everyone? What about me?”

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350. “I don’t have a bullet in my head, do I? So I’m fine.”

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