Top 500 Veronica Roth Quotes (2023 Update)
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401. “I don’t have a bullet in my head, do I? So I’m fine.”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

403. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

404. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

408. “Resisting is worth doing.”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

410. “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

411. “Your powers of deductive reasoning are stunning,” spits Tobias. “Consider me awed.”

— Veronica Roth

412. “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

413. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

414. “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

415. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

416. “Some people believe that I will go nowhere, and maybe they’re right, but maybe they’re not.”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

421. “You can’t be fearless, remember? Because you still care about things. About your life.”

— Veronica Roth

422. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

424. “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

425. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

427. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

431. “Suffer the fate, for all else is delusion.”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

433. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

434. “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

435. “Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life.”

— Veronica Roth

436. “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

437. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

438. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

439. “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

440. “At first Eric stares at Four in silence. Four stares back.”

— Veronica Roth

441. “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

442. “All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter.”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

444. “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.”

— Veronica Roth

445. “I want to cry because something terrible happened, and I saw it, and I could not see a way to mend it.”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Veronica Roth

447. “Relax Beatrice, I’ve driven a car before.? MARCUS ‘I’ve done a lot of things before, but that doesn’t mean I’m any good at them!’ TRIS.”

— Veronica Roth

448. “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?”

— Veronica Roth

449. “Someone shouts, “Enough!” and I think too much and nothing at all.”

— Veronica Roth

450. “I notice, however, that Peter only pretends to inject himself – when he presses the plunger down, the fluid runs down his throat, and he wipes it casually with a sleeve. I wonder what it feels like to volunteer to forget everything.”

— Veronica Roth