Top 500 Veronica Roth Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “Any idiot can stand in front of a target,” I say. “It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall is a sign of cowardice” “Then it should be easy for you,” Eric sys. “If you’re willing ot take his place.”

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352. “He is strong, and lithe, and certain. And he is mine.”

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353. “People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.”

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354. “A breeze blows through the alley, pushing me to one side, and I think of scaling the Ferris wheel with Tobias. He kept me steady then. There is no one left to keep me steady now.”

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355. “That said, in the two weeks before I leave for the Dark Days tour, I am going radio silent, which means I will be avoiding the Internet at all costs in order to revise, revise, revise. I will miss you. Tris says hi, though.”

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356. “He seems designed specifically for speed and deadly accuracy. But not strength, not particularly-he is smart, but not strong. Only strong enough to carry me.”

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357. “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.”

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358. “That night we push our cots just a little closer together, and look into each other’s eyes in the moments before we fall asleep. When he finally drifts off, our fingers are twisted together in the space between the beds. I smile a little, and let myself go.”

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359. “This was the first place I everfelt strong. Every time I breathe this air I feel it again.”

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360. “It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered.”

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361. “I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there’s nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.”

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362. “How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?”

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

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364. “Why do you say vague things if you don’t want to be asked about them?”

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365. “Men like Ryzek Noavek were not born; they were made. But time could not move backward. Just as he had been made, he had to be unmade.”

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366. “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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367. “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.”

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

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369. “I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.”

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370. “Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.”

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371. “I close my eyes. I don’t expect Four to reassure me, and he makes no effort to, but I feel better standing here than I did out there among the people who are my friends, my faction.”

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

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373. “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.”

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

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375. “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.”

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376. “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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377. “My Tris should look pale and small – she is pale and small, after all – but instead the room is full of her.”

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378. “If they told us what to believe, and we didn’t come to it on our own, is it still true?”

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

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380. “I don’t really control the story. I just let it go where it wants to go. I have no idea what’s going to happen in the end or who’s going to live, so it’s kind of like me saying, “I don’t know, guys! Just wait.” That’s what I’m doing!”

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381. “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.”

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

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

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384. “And then the screaming begins.”

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385. “I have always hated the emptiness that winter brings, the blank landscape and the stark difference between sky and ground, the way it transforms trees into skeletons and the city into a wasteland.”

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

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387. “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.”

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388. “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.”

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

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390. “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.”

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391. “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.”

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392. “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.”

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393. “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.”

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394. “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.”

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

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396. “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?”

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

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

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

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400. “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?”

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