Veronica Roth Way Quotations

No one's perfect," I whisper. "It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it." I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered.

I suppose everything is bound to look different when you aren't on your way to die.

I expect to weave through the crowd, dodging elbows and muttering "excuse me" the way I always do, but there is no need. Becoming Dauntless has made me noticable.

Before we sit down, he puts his mouth next to my ear and says, “I like your hair that way.

He's one of the last friends I have," she says, her voice breaking. "I don't know if I'll ever be able to look at you the same way again.

Everyone has to blame something for the way the world is.

I want to cry because something terrible happened, and I saw it, and I could not see a way to mend it.

Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now.

It is amazing how pretending to be in a different faction changes everything -- even the way I walk. That must be why it's so strange that I could easily belong in three of them.

We may both be bad, but there’s a huge difference between us—I’m not content with being this way.

I am his, and he is mine, and it has been that way all along.

The truth has a way of changing people's plans.

I feel acutely aware of how young I am. In a way that is good. It's productive. It makes me realise that I should be growing as a writer and a person.

Sometimes you just need to talk to someone who is detached from you. They just listen to what you tell them and you get to form the way that they see you, whereas everyone else in your life already thinks they know what you're dealing with or what you're going through. That's my recommendation for actual anxiety.

Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.

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

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

Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.