Veronica Roth Quotes About Grief

Quotes about: Grief

• I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.

  Veronica Roth

  Grief, Heart, Breathing

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.34, HarperCollins UK

• Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

  Veronica Roth

  Sad, Grief, Sorrow

• Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

  Veronica Roth

  Sad, Mother, Missing Someone

• People talk about the pain of grief, but I don't know what they mean. To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every sensation dulled.

  Veronica Roth

  Pain, Grief, Mean

  "Allegiant". Book by Veronica Roth, 2013.

• It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.

  Veronica Roth

  Grief, Perfect, Guilt

• In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.

  Veronica Roth

  Grief, Movement, Helping

• I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.

  Veronica Roth

  Grief, Sitting Still, Space

  Veronica Roth (2012). “Insurgent Collector's Edition (Enhanced Edition)”, p.52, Harper Collins

• I was angry with him before. I’m not really sure why. Maybe I was just angry that the world had become such a complicated place, that I have never known even a fraction of the truth about it. Or that I allowed myself to grieve for someone who was never really gone, the same way I grieved for my mother all the years I thought she was dead. Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and it’s been played on me twice.

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, Grief, Grieving

• Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice.

  Veronica Roth

  Grief, Play, Tricks

• Don't confuse your grief with guilt.

  Veronica Roth

  Grief, Guilt

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