Mother Veronica Quotes

#1. I think my mother could be beautiful, in a different world.

Veronica Roth

#2. She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process.
My mother was Dauntless.

Veronica Roth

#3. But my mother would tell me that people are flawed and I should be lenient with them.

Veronica Roth

#4. To my mother, who gave me the moment when Beatrice realizes how strong her mother is and wonders how she missed it for so long.

Veronica Roth

#5. The Gypsy girl carved love letters into trees, filling the forest with notes for him.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#6. I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my mother, and the pain they bequeathed to me like a family heirloom, handed down from generation to generation.
- Tobias Eaton

Veronica Roth

#7. My mother and my sisters - five girls - were crazy about glamour and Hollywood movies. I styled myself on Veronica Lake and Marlene Dietrich.

Jerry Hall

#8. I feel a thread tugging me again, but this time I know that it isn't some sinister force dragging me toward death.
This time I know it's my mother's hand, drawing me into her arms.
And I go gladly into her embrace.

Veronica Roth

#9. Beatrice," she says. "Beatrice, we have to run." She pulls my arm across her shoulders and hauls me to my feet. She is dressed like my mother and she looks like my mother, but she is holding a gun, and the determined look in her eyes is unfamiliar to me.

Veronica Roth

#10. 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

#11. When she's close enough, she extends her hand. "Hello, my name is Natalie. I'm Beatrice's mother." Beatrice. That name is so wrong for her.

Veronica Roth

#12. Life is all but a dream we will soon wake up to and be 7 years old again

Kira Jeffries

#13. Eric called Al's suicide brave, and he was wrong. My mother's death was brave. I remember how calm she was, how determined. It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option.

Veronica Roth

#14. You are far less likely to soil your pants and cry for your mother if you're prepared to defend yourself.

Veronica Roth

#15. But soon I forget all they are being and doing and saying, and stare out the window.

Teri Terry

#16. All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

Elliot W. Eisner

#17. She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love.

Veronica Roth

#18. My mother always sits on the edges of things
chairs, ledges, tables
as if she suspects she will have to flee in an instant.

Veronica Roth

#19. Evelyn puts one arm around Tobias and touches his face with the other, pressing her cheek to his. She says something to him. He smiles at her when he pulls away. Mother and son, reconciled. I am not sure it's wise.

Veronica Roth

#20. Feel Tobias brushing my hair back before the first simulation. I hear him telling me to be brave. I hear my mother telling me to be brave( ... ) I am brave.

Veronica Roth

#21. 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.

Veronica Roth

#22. The first two missions have some test objectives, some new capabilities that we're going to try to develop on orbit to possibly be used on later flights.

Mark Kelly

#23. Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

Veronica Roth

#24. We walk together to the kitchen. On these mornings when my brother makes breakfast, and my father's hand skims my hair as he reads the newspaper, and my mother hums as she clears the table - it is on these mornings that I feel guiltiest for wanting to leave them.

Veronica Roth

#25. My mother told me once that, a long time ago, there were people who wouldn't buy genetically engineered produce because they viewed it as unnatural. Now we have no other option.

Veronica Roth

#26. Now, for the love of Love and her soft hours,
Let's not confound the time with conference harsh.

William Shakespeare

#27. Speaker says psychology has commandeered "everything hard" and partitioned it from Scripture with the assumption that its causes are biological

Edward T. Welch

#28. Our fated untainted soul gives us free reign, only doth backward pull our clouded minds when we ourselves falsely protect from pain.

Truth Devour

#29. Nature will never confront you with a problem you can't solve. You already have the answer, that is why the question appears before you.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#30. Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.

Veronica Roth

#31. My mother was Dauntless.

Veronica Roth