Veronica Roth Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.

  Veronica Roth

  Courage, Giving Up, Bravery

• 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. But sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.

  Veronica Roth

  Courage, Giving Up, Pain

  "Allegiant". Book by Veronica Roth, 2013.

• You think giving you a hug would give away too much?" he says. "You know," I say. "I really don't care." I stand on my tiptoes and press my lips to his. It is the best moment of my life.

  Veronica Roth

  Thinking, Giving, Hug

• I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.

  Veronica Roth

  Life, Loyalty, People

• He gives me a conflicted look and touches his lips to my forehead, right between my eyebrows. I close my eyes. I don't understand this, whatever it is. But I don't want to ruin it, so I say nothing. He doesn't move; he just stays there with his mouth pressed to my skin, and I stay there with my hands on his waist, for a long time.

  Veronica Roth

  Moving, Eye, Hands

• My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it.

  Veronica Roth

  Father, Giving, Divergent

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.39, Harper Collins

• My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldn’t belong there, among people who give without thinking and care without trying.

  Veronica Roth

  Home, Thinking, People

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent”, p.53, HarperCollins UK

• I breathe in. The water will wash my wounds clean. I breathe out. My mother submerged me in water when I was a baby, to give me to God. It has been a long time since I thought about God, but I think about him now. It is only natural. I am glad, suddenly, that I shot Eric in the foot instead of the head.

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, Baby, Thinking

• This is bizarre," I say. "I think it's beautiful," he says. I give him a look. "What?" He laughs a little. "They each have an equal role in government; they each feel equally responsible. And it makes them care; it makes them kind. I think that's beautiful.

  Veronica Roth

  Beautiful, Thinking, Government

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.20, HarperCollins UK

• A sob racks my body again, and he wraps his arms around me so tightly I find it difficult to breathe, but it doesn't matter. My dignified weeping gives way to full-on ugliness, my mouth open and my face contorted and sounds like a dying animal coming from my throat. If this continues I will break apart, and maybe that would be better, maybe it would be better to shatter and bear nothing.

  Veronica Roth

  Animal, Giving, Dying

• I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.

  Veronica Roth

  Dog, Rip, Lying

• It would be stupid to confide your entire plan to one person. It’s infinitely smarter to give little pieces of it to each person working with you. That way, if someone betrays you, the loss isn’t too great.

  Veronica Roth

  Stupid, Loss, Giving

• I used to think about giving my life up for things, but I didn't understand what 'giving your life' really was until it was right there, about to be taken from me

  Veronica Roth

  Taken, Thinking, Giving

  Veronica Roth (2015). “Allegiant Collector's Edition”, p.17, HarperCollins

• I have to admit that Christina is good—though I don’t like giving credit to Candor smart-mouths—and so is Peter—though I don’t like giving credit to future psychopaths.

  Veronica Roth

  Smart, Giving, Credit

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Free Four - Tobias tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene”, p.6, HarperCollins UK

• It's Not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil.

  Veronica Roth

  Sacrifice, Evil, Giving

• The reason the factions were evil is because there was no way out of them. They gave us the illusion of choice without actually giving us a choice.

  Veronica Roth

  Evil, Giving, Choices

• 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.

  Veronica Roth

  Dirty, People, Giving

• An artist gives. Gives visually, gives through courses, or with free advice, through generosity of spirit and through a need to share.

  Veronica Roth

  Artist, Generosity, Giving

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