Veronica Roth Quotes - Page 5

The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.

What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them.pg 459

This is supposed to be a lighthearted session of symbolic document destruction, not a political debate.

When someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.

How do you stop conflict without conflict?

Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives.

He still smiles all the time, but now his smiles look like they're made out of water, about to drip down his face.

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

Is it selfish for me to crave victory or is it brave?

I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

I'll only go if there's cake.~Tobias "Four

- It doesn't do anything obvious. But it might be able to do something in here. - Then she touched her hand to her heart. - Beautiful things sometimes do.

Can you be a girl for a few seconds?""I'm always a girl" I frown."You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girl"I twirl my hair around my finger. "Kay.

(...) I do want to leave, in the desperate way that an animal wants to escape a trap. Wild and rabid. Ready to gnaw through bone.

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.

She is a woman of muscle twisted around bone.

I want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead.

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.

So you’re her brother?” says Lynn. “I guess we know who got the good genes.”I laugh at the expression on Caleb’s face, his mouth drawn into a slight pucker and his eyes wide.

I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding.

But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost.

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?

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks

Yeah, well," I say, "I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be.""That's not entirely true." He smiles at me. "That girl who let someone throw knives at her to spare a friend, who hit my dad with a belt to protect me-that selfless girl, that's not you?"..."You've been paying close attention, haven't you?""I like to observe people/""Maybe you were cut out for Candor, Four, because you're a terrible liar.

Caleb told me that our mother said there was evil in everyone, and the first step to loving someone else is to recognize that evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.

I still want to be angry, but I have to let my anger go.

She's a sailboat and I'm an anchor, pulling us both down.

You're my daughter. I don't care about the factions.

I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.

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

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

no wonder you left."Yeah," i say, rolling my eyes. " It was just because of the food.

Sorry, am I being rude?" she asks."I'm used to saying whatever is on my mind. Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging

You’re the one who has to live whit your choice" she says."Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.

So this is where you grew up. Did you like it here? I guess you couldn't have, if you wanted to leave.' CHRISTINA'I liked some things and hated some things. And there were some things I didn't know I had until I lost them.' TRIS

This is how we came by our factions: Candor, Erudite, Amity, Abnegation and Dauntless." Max smiles. "In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors and leaders and protectors. In them we find our sense of belonging, our sense of community, our very lives.

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.