Veronica Roth Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint.

  Veronica Roth

  Expectations, Parent, Example

  Veronica Roth (2015). “Allegiant Collector's Edition”, p.32, HarperCollins

• My parents did love each other. Enough to forsake plans and factions. Enough to defy “faction before blood.” Blood before faction--no, love before faction, always. - Tris Prior

  Veronica Roth

  Blood, Parent, Enough

• It's wrong," he says. "It doesn't matter if your parents are in a better place, they aren't here with you, and that's wrong, Tris. It shouldn't have happened. It shouldn't have happened to you. And anyone who tells you it's okay is a liar.

  Veronica Roth

  Liars, Parent, Matter

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.35, HarperCollins UK

• I look older. Maybe it's the short hair or maybe it's just that I wear all that has happened like a mask. Either way, I always thought I would be happy when I stopped looking like a child. But all I feel is a lump in my throat. I am no longer the daughter my parents knew. They will never know me as I am now.

  Veronica Roth

  Daughter, Children, Hair

• I look out the window again, taking slow, deep breaths into a body too tense to move. And as I stare out at the land, I think that this, if nothing else, is compelling evidence for my parents’ God, that our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel. -Tris Prior

  Veronica Roth

  Moving, Thinking, Our World

• Soon I will honor my parents by dying as they died. and if all they believed about death was true, soon I will join them in whatever comes next.

  Veronica Roth

  Parent, Honor, Dying

• Today you will choose your factions. Until this point you have followed your parents’ paths, your parents’ rules. Today you will find your own path, make your own rules.

  Veronica Roth

  Parent, Today, Path

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Four: A Divergent Collection”, p.24, HarperCollins UK

• I catch myself thinking 'Thank God For This' out of habit, and then I understand what he's so concerned about. What if my parents' God, their whole belief system, is just something concocted by a bunch of scientists to keep us under control? And not just their beliefs about God and whatever else is out there, about right and wrong, about selfishness?

  Veronica Roth

  Thinking, Parent, What If

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