Top 500 Veronica Roth Quotes (2023 Update)
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351. “From one tyrant to another. That is the world we know, now.”

— Veronica Roth

352. “I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.”

— Veronica Roth

353. “Oh for god’s sake. I’ll just carry you.”

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

— Veronica Roth

355. “I tick off each quality in my mind as he says it – fear, low intelligence, dishonesty, aggression, selfishness. He is talking about the factions. And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite, intelligent but vain; the Amity, peaceful but passive; the Candor, honest but inconsiderate; the Abnegation, selfless but stifling.”

— Veronica Roth

356. “Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.”

— Veronica Roth

357. “I love the Wikipedia link chain because it has led me into some strange articles. Wikipedia is one of my favorites.”

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

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359. “I expect to weave through the crowd, dodging elbows and muttering “excuse me” the way I always do, but there is no need. Becoming Dauntless has made me noticable.”

— Veronica Roth

360. “Little girl, he called me. A little girl who is stressed out to the point of paranoia. That is not me, but now, it’s who the Candor think I am.”

— Veronica Roth

361. “I used to go outside every day and invent these elaborate worlds and scenarios in my head, and when I grew too old for playing pretend, I started to write everything down instead.”

— Veronica Roth

362. “Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.”

— Veronica Roth

363. “Before she got here everything had stalled inside me, and every morning I was just moving toward nighttime.”

— Veronica Roth

364. “I’ll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it.”

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365. “In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.”

— Veronica Roth

366. “Just as I have insisted on his worth, he has always insisted on my strength, insisted that my capacity is greater than I believe. And I know, without being told, that’s what love does, when it’s right-it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be. This is right.”

— Veronica Roth

367. “Caleb runs up to me and folds me carefully in his arms. I breathe a sigh of relief. I thought I had gotten to the point where I didn’t need my brother anymore, but I don’t think such a point actually exists.”

— Veronica Roth

368. “So how can I hold Tobias’s desperation against him, like I’m better than him, like I’ve never let my own brokenness blind me?”

— Veronica Roth

369. “Maybe I was afraid to trust him with something so personal as my devotion.”

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370. “The person you became with her is worth being.”

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371. “Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.”

— Veronica Roth

372. “I kiss him as the train slides into unlit, uncertain land. I kiss him for as long as I want, for longer than I should, given that my brother sits three feet away from me.”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

374. “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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375. “I forget that he is another person; instead it feels like he is another part of me, just as essential as a heart or an eye or an arm.”

— Veronica Roth

376. “It’s then that I realize: Of course Tris would go into the Weapons Lab instead of Caleb. Of course she would.”

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377. “I was still afraid of him, I knew, but in a different way – I was no longer a child, afraid of the threat my terrifying father posed to my safety. I was a man, afraid of the threat he posed to my character, to my future, to my identity.”

— Veronica Roth

378. “And I provide much- needed eye candy.”

— Veronica Roth

379. “And then the screaming begins.”

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

— Veronica Roth

381. “I note how calm she looks and how focused she is. She is well-practiced in the art of losing herself. I can’t say the same of myself.”

— Veronica Roth

382. “What irritates me most about him is his natural goodness, his inborn selflessness.”

— Veronica Roth

383. “Instead I just let the silence stretch out between us. It’s the only adequate response to what he just told me, the only that does the tragedy any justice instead of patching it hastily and moving on.”

— Veronica Roth

384. “That’s the first time I’ve ever said those words out loud, and now I hear how strange they are. How many young men fear that there is a monster instead them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves.”

— Veronica Roth

385. “Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt.”

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

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387. “I’m going to shoot a muffin off Marlene’s head.”

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388. “The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel. I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.”

— Veronica Roth

389. “Sivbarat referred to a person’s dearest friend, someone so close that to lose them would be like losing a limb.”

— Veronica Roth

390. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

391. “I came here so that no one else would die. I came here to protect as many people as I could. And I care more about Tobias’s safety than anyone else’s. So why am I here, if he’s here? What’s the point?”

— Veronica Roth

392. “How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another.”

— Veronica Roth

393. “Can I be forgiven for all I’ve done to get here? I want to be. I can. I believe it.”

— Veronica Roth

394. “I don’t want to be just one thing. I want to be brave and selfless and intelligent and honest and kind.”

— Veronica Roth

395. “She can’t possibly be me, though she moves when I move.”

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396. “Stiff. That’s why you’re strong, get it? – Tobias Eaton.”

— Veronica Roth

397. “It doesn’t take skill to stand in a place were no bullets find you, or to fire into the dark and hit a man you didn’t see.”

— Veronica Roth

398. “I hear my heartbeat. I have been looking at him too long, but then, he has been looking back, and I feel like we are both trying to say something the other can’t hear, though I could be imagining it. Too long – and now even longer, my heart even louder, his tranquil eyes swallowing me whole.”

— Veronica Roth

399. “I am afraid of her, afraid of what she says-and thrilled by it too, because it means I don’t have to accept that I am smaller than I once believed.”

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400. “It happened. It was awful. You aren’t perfect. That’s all there is. Don’t confuse your grief with guilt.”

— Veronica Roth