Quotes by Veronica Roth

Sometimes it isnt fighting thats brave, its facing the death you know is coming.

Now it seems like no matter what I decide, Ill be betraying someone.

maybe here, in dauntless, bravery is the highest form of wisdom. the acknowledgement that life can and should be lived without fear

But then he stops at the door frame and says, Its 9:24. Telling me the time is a small act of betrayal-and therefore an ordinary act of bravery. It is maybe the first time Ive seen Peter be truly Dauntless.

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.

She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love.

That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel.

The division is based on knowledge, based on qualifications - but as I learned from the factionless, a system that relies on a group of uneducated people to do its dirty work without giving them a way to rise is hardly fair.

I fell in love with him. But I dont just stay with him by default as if theres 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.

The only reason I havent shot you yet is because hes the one who should get to do it, I say. Stay away from him or Ill decide I no longer care.

Ill only go if theres cake.~Tobias Four

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

And there were some things I didnt know I had until I lost them.

And what this is, I realize, is life. I dont want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. Ive been trying to claw my way back to them, and now I am so close and he is telling me not to.

I feel bare. I didnt realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.

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, Im finding,

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, Im finding.

...something important is lost if this man has been forced to deny his own nature.

You know, he said, the condition of sourness--or monstrousness, as you might call it--doesnt have to be permanent.P189

Some people might leave you, he said, for once ignoring a joke in favor of something real. But it doesnt mean youre worth leaving. It doesnt mean that at all.