Quotes by Veronica Roth

Aren’t you going to ask me if I’m all right?” I say.“No, I’m pretty sure you’re not all right.”He shakes his head. “I’m going to ask you not to make any decisions until we’ve talkedabout it.

So this is where you grew up. Did you like it here? I guess you couldnt have, if you wanted to leave. CHRISTINAI liked some things and hated some things. And there were some things I didnt know I had until I lost them. TRIS

This is what I chose. This is it. I look over Roberts shoulder. The Dauntless guards seem to have finished examining the truck. The bearded man gets back into the drivers seat and closes the door behind him. Besides, Robert. The goal of my life isnt just...to be happy. Wouldnt it be easier if it was, though? he says

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

It’s not about Al,” I snap. “It’s about everyone watching! Everyone who now seeshurling themselves into the chasm as a viable option. I mean, why not do it if everyonecalls you a hero afterward? Why not do it if everyone will remember your name? It’s…Ican’t…

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

I regret... Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. I regret my choice.What Ch

I cant leave her now. I like her too much. There, I said it. But I wont say it again.

If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned it from anyone.

I dont need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.

It’s getting more difficult to be wise,” he says, laughing into my ear.I smile at him. “I think that’s how it’ssupposed to be.

Honor,” I said with a snort. “Honor has no place in survival.

... but in an attack, surviving is an accident. It doesnt take skill to stand in a place where no bullets find you, or to fire into the dark and hit a man you didnt see. It is all luck, or providence, depending on what you believe.

I touch her cheek to slow the kiss down, holding her mouth on mine so I can feel every place where our lips touch and every place where they pull away. I savor the air we share in the second afterwards and the slip of her nose across mine. I think of something to say, but it is too intimate, so I swallow it. A moment later I decide I dont care. I wish we were alone, I say as I back out of the cell. She smiles. I almost always wish that.

She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they dont have enough of their own.

The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was risking when she risked her life.pg 337

Stupid. Why do people want to pretendthat death is sleep? It isn’t. It isn’t

A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.

I think I speak for everyone, he says, when I say you have earned the title of Dauntless.

What is wrong with you? I shake my head. Pull it together. And thats what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up and in like a shoelace. I feel suffocated, but at least I feel strong.