Top 100 Four Veronica Roth Quotes
#1. Promise me that you won't go. For me. Do this one thing for me.
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#2. The word 'pretty', and it all it represents, seems so completely useless right now that I have no patience for it.
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#3. I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent
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#4. You were afraid of shooting people?"
"No," I say. "I was afraid of my considerable capacity to kill."
How many young men fear that there is a monster inside of them?
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#5. At first Eric stares at Four in silence. Four stares back.
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#6. But then I stopped allowing myself to dream, because it was more painful to long for things and never get them than to deal with whatever was in front of me. [ ... ] I'm too old to hear confront nonsense anymore. Too old to believe that everything will be alright.
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#7. One thing I know: For helping me forget how awful the world is, I prefer her to alcohol.
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#8. I do like to hit people-I like the explosion of power and energy, and the feeling that I am untouchable because I can hurt people. But I hate that part of myself, because it is the part of me that is the most broken
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#9. My parents ... They died today ... They died for me. -Tris
They loved you ... To them there was no better way to show you. -Four
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#10. What did you do?" I scream.
"You die, I die too.
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#12. I pout my lower lip for a second, but then I grin as the pieces come together.
"That's why you like me!" I exclaim. "Because you're not very nice either! It makes so much more sense now.
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#13. My head buzzes with
nervousness, but the rest of me seems to know exactly what it's doing, because it all pulses to the same rhythm, all wants the same
thing: to escape itself and become a part of him instead.
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#14. If I wanted to put up with Candor smart-mouths, I would have joined their faction.
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#15. God, Four!" I snap. "You don't want to have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?"
"First of all, don't use that name like a weapon against me," he says, pointing at me.
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#16. I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.
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#17. I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.
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#18. I deposited Drew at the infirmary a half hour ago.
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#19. I can feel his breaths against my palm, his body expanding and contracting, and I know he's strong, steady, unstoppable.
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#20. For a few minutes we kiss, deep in the chasm, with the roar of water all around us. And we rise, hand in hand, I realize that if we had both chosen differently, we might have ended up doing the same thing, in a safer place, in gray clothes instead of black ones.
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#21. A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.
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#22. Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that "something" is a fake bathroom break.
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#23. Eyes open, then, I say, tapping the skin between my eyebrows. I don't really need her eyes to be on mine, but I feel better when they are.
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#24. The night air slips into my lungs, and I feel like it is one of my first breaths.
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#25. Sometimes I feel like we are the same, but sometimes, like right now, I feel the separation between our personalities like I've just run into a wall.
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#26. That's the first time I've ever said those words out loud, and now I hear how strange they are. How many young men fear that there is a monster instead them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves.
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#27. You can tell me anything, you know. I am kinder than I seemed in training. I promise.
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#28. The hurts from my last day with my father are healed now, but I want to remember where they were; I want to remember what I escaped for as long as I live.
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#29. Four sets his hand on my back and says, Welcome to Dauntless.
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#30. You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?
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#31. I would like to experience this 'date' phenomenon.
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#32. Can you tell me where to find Tobias'? I ask. When I imagine his face, affection for him bubbles up inside of me and all I want to do is kiss him. 'Four, I mean. He's so handsome, isn't he? I don't really understand why he likes me so much. I'm not very nice, am I?'
-Tris
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#33. Four! I call out. Why am I calling a number? Oh yes. Because that's his name. - Tris.
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#34. But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost.
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#36. The ability to think isn't exclusive to erudite
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#37. But there is something appealing about it here too, a freedom, a refusal to belong to theses arbitrary categories we've made for ourselves.
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#38. In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.
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#40. We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest." He clears his throat. "I continually struggle with kindness.
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#41. You know, the kind of person who gets this tattoo is probably the kind that should keep it very quiet," she says, looking at me from the corner of her eye. "Or else someone will start thinking they're Divergent.
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#42. Your daughter is doing well here. I've been overseeing her training."
Since when does "overseeing" include throwing knives at me and scolding me at every opportunity?
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#43. We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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#44. Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into place. Peter freezes with his lips parted, the yawn dead in his mouth. "Wake. Up," Four snaps. "You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.
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#45. Four: I don't want to be just one thing. I can't be. I want to be brave, and I want to be selfless, intelligent, and honest and kind. Well, I'm still working on kind.
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#46. It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? ( ... ) But please, when you see an opportunity ... ruin them
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#47. My name is Four," I say. "Call me 'Stiff' again and you and I will have a problem.
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#48. Stiff. That's why you're strong, get it? - Tobias Eaton
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#49. First of all, don't use that name like a weapon against me
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#50. So now we all know," says Four, quietly, "that you are afraid of a short, skinny girl from Abnegation." His mouth curls into a smile.
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#51. I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe.
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#52. Are you asking me to undress, Tris?'
A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially
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#53. I love you" I say.
"I love you, too" he says. "I'll see you soon.
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#54. Tris," he says. "What did they do to you? You're acting like a lunatic."
"That's not very nice of you to say," I say. "They put me in a good mood, that's all. And now I really want to kiss you, so if you could just relax-
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#55. There is a wavering expression in hereyes, like she is a heap of leaves aboutto be scattered by the wind
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#56. Out of my peripheral vision, I see Four shove the door open and walk out. Apparently this fight isn't interesting enough for him. Or maybe he's going to figure out why everything's spinning like a top, and I don't blame him; I want to know the answer too.
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#57. Abnegation who switch to Dauntless become... I don't know, soldiers, I guess. Revolutionaries. That's what he could be, if he trusted himself more" he adds."If Four wasn't so plagued with self-doubt, he would be one hell of a leader, I think.
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#58. Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt
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#59. I close my eyes. I don't expect Four to reassure me, and he makes no effort to, but I feel better standing here than I did out there among the people who are my friends, my faction.
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#60. Shut up, Four! she says, and I want to yell back that I'm as frustrated as she is, with an
Erudite vulture analyzing my every move, searching for my weak points so he can hit them as hard
as he can.
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#61. He smells safe, too, like sunlit walks in the orchard and silent breakfasts
in the dining hall. And in the moments before I drift off to sleep, I almost forget about our war-torn city and all the conflict that will
come to find us soon, if we don't find it first.
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#62. Is he ... " I look from Marcus, who walks slowly toward us, to Four, who inches slowly back, and everything comes together. Marcus had a son who joined Dauntless. His name was ... "Tobias.
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#63. I never used to understand why people bothered to hold hands as they walked, but then he runs one of his fingertips down my palm, and I shiver and understand it completely
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#64. I respect you more than anyone. But right now I'm wondering what bothers you more, that I made a stupid decision or that I didn't make your decision.
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#65. Two things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. It is my nature to expect the worst of them. And the second is that I am unexpectedly good with computers.
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#66. Five more seconds of weakness and then I get up. One, two. Three, four. Five.
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#67. If we stay together, I'll have to forgive you over and over again, and if you're still in this, you'll have to forgive me over and over again too. So forgiveness isn't the point. What I really should have been trying to figure out is whether we were still good for each other or not
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#69. I don't want to be just one thing. I want to be brave and selfless and intelligent and honest and kind.
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#70. One Choice, Breaks free of his past
One Choice, Embraces his future
One Choice, Exposes the dangers
One Choice, Changes him- forever
One Choice will free him
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#71. I am wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, black shoes
new clothes, but beneath them, my Dauntless tattoos. It is impossible to erase my choices. Especially these.
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#72. We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.
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#73. Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.
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#74. You think giving you a hug would give away too much?" he says.
"You know," I say. "I really don't care."
I stand on my tiptoes and press my lips to his.
It is the best moment of my life.
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#75. Aren't you going to ask me if I'm all right?" I say.
"No, I'm pretty sure you're not all right."
He shakes his head. "I'm going to ask you not to make any decisions until we've talked
about it.
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#77. People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.
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#78. I blink a few times and focus as hard as I can on the only face I can see. It is contorted with anger. His eyes are dark blue.
"Four," I croak.
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#79. It's not about Al," I snap. "It's about everyone watching! Everyone who now sees
hurling themselves into the chasm as a viable option. I mean, why not do it if everyone
calls you a hero afterward? Why not do it if everyone will remember your name? It's ... I
can't ...
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#80. Don't worry about me handling the pain," I say. "I've had a lot of practice.
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#82. Here, I've learned to defend myself,
I've learned to be stronger,
but one thing I haven't learned, won't let myself learn, is how to enjoy causing someone else pain. If I'm going to become Dauntless, I'm going to do it on my terms, even if that means that a part of me will always be a Stiff.
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#83. I still want to smack him. Or remind him that the last transfer we had from Abnegation, who is sitting right next to him, managed to knock out some of his teeth, so who knows what this next one will do.
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#84. All I want is to become someone new. In this case, Tobias Johnson, son of Evelyn Johnson. Tobias Johnson may have lived a dull and empty life, but he is at least a whole person, not this fragment of a person that I am, too damaged by pain to become anything useful.
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#85. Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.
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#86. In that moment I'm able to accept the inevitability of how I feel, though not with joy. I need to talk to someone. I need to trust someone. And for whatever reason, I know, I know it's her.
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#87. Panic and terror aren't the only kinds of fear. There are deeper kinds, more terrible kinds. Apprehension and heavy, heavy dread.
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#88. Then everyone can call you Six."
"Four and Six," I say.
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#89. Ignore them. They don't know what it is to make a difficult decision."
"You wouldn't have done it, I bet."
"That is only because I have been taught to be cautious when I don't know all the information, and you have been taught that risks can produce great rewards.
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#90. Quit sulking, Four," she says. "Everyone's impressed with you. Embrace it.
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#91. Tobias Eaton was a shameful name, and now it is a powerful one.
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#92. It's over, I say, wincing- she punches harder than she realizes. I ignore the pain and run a hand over her hair, because I'm stupid, and inappropriate, and stupid ...
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#93. Fine." He leans his face closer to mine, his eyes focusing on my chin, and my lips, and my nose. "I watched you because I like you." He says it plainly, boldly, and his eyes flick up to mine. "And don't call me 'Four,' okay? It's nice to hear my name again.
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#94. With four? Doing a little ... Addition? Multiplication?
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#95. It's getting more difficult to be wise," he says, laughing into my ear.
I smile at him. "I think that's how it's
supposed to be.
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#96. Four grabs a bar with each hand and pulls himself up, easy, like he's sitting up in bed. But he is not comfortable or natural here
every muscle in his arm stands out. it is a stupid thing for me to think when I am one hundred feet off the ground.
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#97. The person you became with her is worth being.
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#98. Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it.
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#99. I am not Tobias Eaton, not anymore, never again. I am Dauntless.
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#100. I've made my peace with Caleb, but I still can't be around him for long. His gestures, his inflection, his manner, they are hers. They make him into just a whisper of her, and that is not enough of her, but it is also far too much.
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