Veronica Roth
75 quotes
Biography
"We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another."
"Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it."
"I might be in love with you."He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though."
"I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different."
"Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.''Well,' he says, 'I would only go if there was cake."
"Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now."
"Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up"
"A brave man acknowledges the strength of others."
"I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page."
"People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them."
"I am selfish. I am brave."
"Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind."
"We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us."
"Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames."
"Politeness is deception in pretty packaging."
"I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last."
"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 or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me."
"It must require bravery to be honest all the time."
"I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent."
"Moths,"repeats Will. "You're afraid of moths?""Not just a cloud of moths,"she says, "like...a swarm of them. Everywhere. All those wings and legs and..."She shudders and shakes her head."Terrifying,"Will says with mock seriousness. "That's my girl. Tough as cotton balls.""Oh, Shut up."
"Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them."
"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."
"Sleep,” he says. “I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.” “With what?” “My bare hands, obviously."
"Got that gun?” Peter says to Tobias. “No,” says Tobias, “I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left it upstairs."
"It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free."