Top 100 Quotes About Veronica
#1. Instead I take the lead, Tobias silent at my side, and though he does not touch me, he steadies me.
Veronica Roth
#2. Think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Because inside me is a beast that snarls and growls, and strains toward freedom.
Veronica Roth
#3. Fighting for survival in a shattered world ... the truth is her only hope.
Veronica Roth
#4. The only reason I haven't shot you yet is because he's the one who should get to do it," I say. "Stay away from him or I'll decide I no longer care.
Veronica Roth
#5. I guess I am what I have always been. Not Dauntless, not Abnegation, not factionless. Divergent.
Veronica Roth
#6. 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.
Veronica Roth
#7. How many different kinds of ruin do you have to see before you resign yourself to calling it all "ruin"?
Veronica Roth
#8. If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
Veronica Roth
#9. Besides,' she says, 'not every friendship turns into a romance. I haven't tried to kiss you yet.
Veronica Roth
#10. This was the first place I everfelt strong. Every time I breathe this air I feel it again.
Veronica Roth
#11. Christina,'i say,'The factionless have all the guns.
Veronica Roth
#12. Sleep," he says. "I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you." "With what?" "My bare hands, obviously.
Veronica Roth
#13. He chased after her. Needed to reach her, though he didn't know why. He was just sure in that certain senseless way of dreams.
Veronica Rossi
#14. It was a message from her. A reminder - here among hundreds of people - of a moment that had been theirs alone.
Veronica Rossi
#15. Do me a favor," he says, "and don't call me that.
Veronica Roth
#17. I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding.
Veronica Roth
#18. Feel my heart beat. Can you feel it?"
"Yes."
"Feel how steady it is?"
"It's fast."
"Yes, well, that has nothing to do with the box.
Veronica Roth
#19. So how can I hold Tobias's desperation against him, like I'm better than him, like I've never let my own brokenness blind me?
Veronica Roth
#20. You always look like someone's sucked the life right out of you when something fascinates you. -Tris
Veronica Roth
#21. Why do you say vague things if you don't want to be asked about them?
Veronica Roth
#22. Formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals.
Veronica Roth
#23. All three combined is ... a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind.
Veronica Roth
#24. I look up at Eric,sniffing "I tried to...and..."I shake my head.
"You tired to what?" asks Eric
"Kiss me," says Tobias. "And I rejected her,and she went running off like a five-year-old. there's really nothing to blame her for but stupidity.
Veronica Roth
#25. Maybe now he thinks I'm stupid, or strange. Maybe it was worth it. I
Veronica Roth
#26. I chose Dauntless not because they are perfect, but because they are alive, they are free.
Veronica Roth
#27. The tiny match we've been fooling with just set off an explosion.
Veronica Larsen
#28. A tingle ran down her back. This was so strange. Him, asking her this. Far more intimate than it should have felt. Because she knew he wanted to know. He didn't ask empty questions or waste words.
Veronica Rossi
#29. To be an artist means to invite an occupation into your life that requires commitment and hard work, but the rewards and satisfaction you'll get make the work seem like play. But you have to do it every day.
Veronica Lawlor
#30. We all have the potential to do terrible things. But we also have the potential to overcome our mistakes.
Veronica Rossi
#32. The only thing I knew to do with a man was what I'd learned from my parents: to fight or not fight. I had no idea how to craft a partnership beyond that one basic thing.
Veronica Chambers
#33. She absorbed the terror and beauty of him and his world. Of every moment over the past days. All of it, filling her up like the first breath she'd ever taken. And never had she loved life more.
Veronica Rossi
#34. Which means that in order to defeat her, I have to think of a way to defeat myself. And how can I be a better fighter than myself, if she knows the same strategies I know, and is exactly as resourceful and clever as I am?
Veronica Roth
#35. I wish I could tell him that we're going through the same thing. I wish I could speak to him like I want to instead of like I'm supposed to. But the idea of admitting that I need help is too much to bear, so I turn away.
Veronica Roth
#36. What am I? What do I need, to overcome my fears?
I know the answer, of course I do: I need to deny them the power to control me. I need to know that I am stronger than they are.
Veronica Roth
#38. And the transfer initiates with forgiving parents will be able to see them again too. I suspect mine will not be among them. Not after my father's cry of outrage at the ceremony. Not after both their children left them.
Veronica Roth
#39. I smirk a little. I did it, I put that expression on his face. I am not the perfect Abnegation child, doomed to be swallowed by the system and dissolved into obscurity. Instead, I am the first Abnegation-Dauntless transfer in more than a decade.
Veronica Roth
#42. Come thaw my frozen heart, my little arctic kitten."
Unable to resist, Aria jumped in and picked up the next line. "No chance, my yeti man, I'd rather be frostbitten."
"Let me be your snowman. Come live in my igloo."
"I'd rather freeze to death than hibernate with you.
Veronica Rossi
#43. You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.
Veronica Lake
#44. Is it selfish for me to crave victory or is it brave?
Veronica Roth
#45. I was not the first choice for Veronica in Heathers. I auditioned and they were like, "Oh, thanks." And I went to the Beverly Center to Macy's and had them do a makeover on me. I went back because I kind of knew that they thought I wasn't pretty enough. They were trying to get Jennifer Connelly.
Winona Ryder
#46. There are no safe rooms, no safe truths, no safe secrets to tell.
Veronica Roth
#47. She knew how to put one foot in front of the other even when every step hurt. And she knew there was pain in the journey, but there was also great beauty. She'd seen it standing on rooftops and in green eyes and in the smallest, ugliest rock.
Veronica Rossi
#48. The only thing that matters is us. I don't want to hide us anymore. Veronica, I want you. I want all of you. All the time, every day, until the end. I want to tell the world just how much you mean to me because you are my world.
Karina Halle
#49. But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.
Rob Thomas
#50. You have a nice voice,' I say.
'Tris,' he says, 'please be quiet.
Veronica Roth
#51. Stella, you totally deserve double whatever Jackie's paying you.
Veronica Blade
#53. 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.
Veronica Roth
#54. How hard do you think it'd be to hack into the database of a major research university?"
Mac hesitated. "Since you're asking me on a cell phone, in front of God and the NSA- impossible.
Rob Thomas
#57. If I unfocus my eyes, I see exactly what the Candor don't believe in-gray. Maybe Tobias and I don't believe in it either. Not really.
Veronica Roth
#58. I don't know how, but the dormitory smells like sleep - like laundry and shoes and night sweats and morning coffee.
Veronica Roth
#59. We are creatures of loss; we have left everything behind. I have no home, no path, and no certainty. I am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the brave. I suppose now, I must become more than either.
Veronica Roth
#60. Love was like the waves in the sea, gentle and good sometimes, rough and terrible at others, but that it was endless and stronger than the sky and earth and everything in between.
Veronica Rossi
#61. 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.
Veronica Roth
#62. Independent," I say, "and uninvolved. Must be nice
Veronica Roth
#63. I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
Veronica Roth
#64. Can I ask why you're throwing knives at cheese?'
'Caleb came by to discuss something,' Tobias says, leaning his head against the wall as he looks at me. 'And knife-throwing just came up somehow.'
'As it so often does,' I say, a small smile inching across my face.
Veronica Roth
#65. If Eric thinks I did something right, I must have done it wrong.
Veronica Roth
#66. I do trust you, is what I want to say. But it isn't true
I didn't trust him to love me despite the terrible things I had done. I don't trust anyone to do that, but that isn't his problem; it's mine.
Veronica Roth
#67. 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.
Veronica Roth
#68. He doesn't scowl, but his mouth is so tense that I know he's angry with me. 'Don't be an idiot,' he says.
'An idiot?' Is he talking about the blanket?
'You were lying.
Veronica Roth
#69. Leaders must not be chosen based on charisma, popularity, or ease of communication, all of which are misleading and have little to do with the efficacy of a political leader.
Veronica Roth
#70. Ordinary life surrounds me, and I am
alone with these revelations.
Veronica Roth
#71. He kisses me again, more insistent this time, his hands squeezing my waist. His breaths, his body, my body, we are so close there is no difference.
Veronica Roth
#72. What good is a prepared body if you have a scattered mind?
Veronica Roth
#73. She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love.
Veronica Roth
#74. I glance at Tris. She grins at me, then leans in to whisper something to Christina.
"Are you here to help or what, Stiff?" I say.
Veronica Roth
#75. We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.
Veronica Roth
#76. Exactly. It all just seems so arbitrary and political and" - come on, Blake, finish strong, puritanical, pathological, perforated, Panamanian - "weird.
Veronica Rossi
#77. And then he winked.
Jeez, I thought my heart would explode on the spot. The last time a guy winked at me was years ago, and that'd been a creepy mall Santa.
Veronica Wolff
#78. Soren huffed. "I saw her looking at me when we were changing into our uniforms."
"She was looking at you because you're built like a bull."
Soren's laugh was nervous, clipped. "Is that good?"
"It'd be great if she were a cow.
Veronica Rossi
#80. I wanted to try marathon running, but something always came up: I had a baby and a C-section or I got injured or I just didn't think I could run that far.
Veronica Webb
#81. In the midst of meeting new people and making plans, I forgot that my plan is to walk straight into a battle that could claim my life. Right after I realized that my life was worth living.
Veronica Roth
#82. It would be stupid to confide your entire plan to one person. It's infinitely smarter to give little pieces of it to each
person working with you. That way, if someone betrays you, the loss isn't too great.
Veronica Roth
#83. It was my idea. It's the safest way, but it's strange pretending to be something different. It's like there's a glass wall between us. Like I can't touch him or ... reach him. I don't like the way it feels.
Veronica Rossi
#84. 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.
Veronica Roth
#85. I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind.
Veronica Roth
#86. I wouldn't let him distract me. "Your accent gets thicker when you're being ... improper."
"Improper, is it?"
"Inappropriate."
"Indelicate?" He waggled his brows just before her rounded a corner, disappearing into shadows.
Veronica Wolff
#87. Because there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready for it. (divergent pg.138)
Veronica Roth
#88. The world doesn't revolve around you, Drew."
"Well, my world does.
Veronica Wolff
#89. That's what love does. When it's right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
Veronica Roth
#91. So I am halfway in and halfway out, as always.
Veronica Roth
#92. Huh. Veronica Mars, speechless. I'll have to write this one in my feelings journal.
Rob Thomas
#94. I smirk as Peter misses again. I can't help myself.
"Hey, Peter," I say, " Remember what a target is?
Veronica Roth
#96. I saw, for the first time, how thin the line was between fear and love, between reverence and adoration.
Veronica Roth
#97. And who really cares if you flash people your underwear, as long as you're kicking the crap out of them?
Veronica Roth
#98. We have to go," Tris says, and I know she's not talking about leaving Michigan Avenue or taking Edward to the hospital; she's talking about the city. "We have to go," I repeat.
Veronica Roth
#100. When you control information, or manipulate it, you don't need force to keep people under your thumb. They stay there willingly.
Veronica Roth
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