Veronica Roth Quotes About Metals

Quotes about: Metals

• The floor is solid metal in some places and metal grating in others. Everything smells like rotting garbage and fire.
  "Don't say I never took you anywhere nice," Peter says.
  "Wouldn't dream of it," I say.

  Veronica Roth

  Dream, Nice, Fire

  "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth, Ch. 36, (pp. 389-390), May 1, 2012.

• For me, it feels like driving from truth into a lie, from adulthood to childhoold. I watch the land of pavement and glass and metal turn into an empty field. The snow is falling softly now, and I can faintly see the city's skyline up ahead, the buildings just a shade darker than the clouds.

  Veronica Roth

  Lying, Fall, Glasses

• You think my first instinct is to protect you. Because you're small, or a girl, or a Stiff. But you're wrong." He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife? My skin tingles at the point of contact, like he's transmitting electricity through his skin. "My first instinct is to push you until you break, just to see how hard I have to press." he says, his fingers squeezing at the word break. My body tenses at the edge in his voice, so I am coiled as tight as a spring, and I forget to breathe.

  Veronica Roth

  Girl, Spring, Gun

• He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife?

  Veronica Roth

  Gun, Hands, Knives

• I should wonder what courage—which is the virtue they most value—has to do with a metal ring through your nostril.

  Veronica Roth

  Wonder, Virtue, Should

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Divergent Collector's Edition”, p.7, Harper Collins

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