Veronica Roth Quotes - Page 3

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• I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

  Veronica Roth

  Badass, Book, People

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• What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face. “Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.

  Veronica Roth

  Sleep, Eye, Tunnels

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• Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.

  Veronica Roth

  Bravery, Doe, Way

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• I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.

  Veronica Roth

  Secret, Armor, Gone

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• It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.

  Veronica Roth

  Thinking, Tugging, Embroidery

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.46, Harper Collins

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• Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time.

  Veronica Roth

  Guilt, Next, Teach

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• You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.

  Veronica Roth

  Strong, Men, Coward

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• And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.

  Veronica Roth

  Demand, Want, Sometimes

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.31, HarperCollins UK

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• I'm sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what's wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.

  Veronica Roth

  Sick, Want, Wonder

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• We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

  Veronica Roth

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

  "Divergent". Book by Veronica Roth (p. 47), 2011.

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• I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

  Veronica Roth

  Fear, Inspiration, Way

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• Some people believe that I will go nowhere, and maybe they're right, but maybe they're not.

  Veronica Roth

  Believe, People

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• People, even genetically damaged people, make choices. That’s what matters.’

  Veronica Roth

  What Matters, People, Choices

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• You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.

  Veronica Roth

  Inspirational, Believe, Belief

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• 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.

  Veronica Roth

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.70, Harper Collins

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• To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community. My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, Things In Life, Community

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• 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.

  Veronica Roth

  Perfect, Divergent, Alive

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• 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

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• No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.

  Veronica Roth

  Life, Courage, Real

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• His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate. He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.

  Veronica Roth

  Hair, Two, Secret

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• I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, Father, Desperate

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• Reading is such a huge part of my life.

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  Reading, Huge

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• I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.

  Veronica Roth

  Thinking, Naps, Cake

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• I'll say it one last time: Be brave.

  Veronica Roth

  Brave, Lasts, Be Brave

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• But that wasn´t the first time I ever saw her. I saw her in the hallways at school, and at my mother’s false funeral, and walking the sidewalks in the Abnegation sector. I saw her, but I didn’t see her; no one saw her the way she truly was until she jumped. I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, School, Fire

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