Top 500 Veronica Roth Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “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

402. “Death is not the only punishment you can give a person. You can also give them nightmares.”

— Veronica Roth

403. “That there was nothing you could have that you couldn’t one day lose. That autumn always gave way to winter, but it was her favorite time of year – those fleeting bursts of beauty before the branches went bare.”

— Veronica Roth

404. “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

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

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406. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

408. “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

409. “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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410. “I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.”

— Veronica Roth

411. “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.”

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412. “It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.”

— Veronica Roth

413. “Well, you can’t love everything equally,” she said. “You just can’t – and if you did, then it’s the same as loving nothing at all. So you have to hold just a few things dear, because that’s what love is. Particular. Specific.”

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414. “She tips her chin up and looks at me with that Abnegation stubbornness I know so well. She may have left them, but they are what’s making her strong.”

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415. “Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles, like he is surprised you bothered to look at him in the first place.”

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416. “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.”

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417. “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. Because inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom, toward Tobias, and, above all, toward life. And as hard as I try, I cannot kill it. So I sob into my hands instead.”

— Veronica Roth

418. “I liked some things and hated some things. And there were some things I didn’t know I had until I lost them.”

— Veronica Roth

419. “I wonder if this is how is is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likable as good men.”

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420. “All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.”

— Veronica Roth

421. “Everyone has to blame something for the way the world is.”

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422. “I saw, for the first time, how thin the line was between fear and love, between reverence and adoration.”

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423. “He pulls me over the railing and against his chest, gathering me into his arms, easing an arm under my knees. I press my face into his shoulder, and there is a sudden, hollow silence.”

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424. “It seems like the rebellions never stop, in the city, in the compound, anywhere. There are just breaths between them, and foolishly, we call those breaths “peace”.”

— Veronica Roth

425. “I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don’t see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can’t be; someone I can be.”

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426. “The floor is solid metal in some places and metal grating in others. Everything smells like rotting garbage and fire. “Don’t say I never took you anywhere nice,” Peter says. “Wouldn’t dream of it,” I say.”

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427. “Caleb and Tris exchange a look. The skin on his face and on her knuckles is nearly the same colour, purple-blue-green, as if drawn with ink. This is what happens when siblings collide – they injure each other in the same way.”

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428. “I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.”

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429. “My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.”

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430. “How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me-.”

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431. “Independent and uninvolved. Must be nice. -Tris.”

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432. “Resisting is worth doing.”

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433. “If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it.”

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434. “Don’t say I never take you anywhere nice.”

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435. “To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.”

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436. “We may both be bad, but there’s a huge difference between us – I’m not content with being this way.”

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437. “I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.”

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438. “She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none.”

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439. “Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.”

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440. “Looking at her is like waking up.”

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441. “I brought you the truth about our city and the reason we are in it. If you aren’t thanking me for it, you should at least do something about it instead of sitting here on this mess you made, pretending it’s a throne!”

— Veronica Roth

442. “He must have stood there for a long time, making a list of all the terrible things he had done – almost killinng me was one of those thingss – and another list of all the good, heroic, brave things he had not done, and then decided that he was tired. Tired, not just of living, but of existing. Tired of being Al.”

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443. “It is amazing how pretending to be in a different faction changes everything – even the way I walk. That must be why it’s so strange that I could easily belong in three of them.”

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444. “Lynn smacks Uriah hard in the back of the head, Christina says, “Hey Tris!” and Uriah cries, “Ow! How on earth do you make a pillow hurt, Lynn?” “My exceptional strength,” she says.”

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445. “Don’t tell me you’re going to eat a mashed-potato sandwich.”

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446. “You need to be passionate about the creative work that you’re doing, but you need to be kind of emotionally separated from how people react to it or how it does. Those things should be secondary, and primary should be your love of the creative act.”

— Veronica Roth

447. “What do I believe? I do not know; I do not know; I do not know.”

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448. “As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I’ve grown up, I’ve decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.”

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449. “Christina,’i say,’The factionless have all the guns.”

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450. “I frown at him. How does he know all this information? And why, after two years of avoiding becoming a Dauntless leader at all costs, is he suddenly acting like one?”

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