Top 100 Quotes About Veronica Roth
#1. 'Divergent,' directed by Neil Burger, displayed an admirable seriousness and some grim verve in laying out the boundaries of novelist Veronica Roth's dystopia - six segregated but ostensibly harmonious regions defined by their inhabitants' skills.
Richard Corliss
#2. I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
Victoria Aveyard
#3. I'm always excited to see my good buddy Richelle Mead. She cracks me up. I never get to see Veronica Roth enough, either.
Margaret Stohl
#4. Instead I take the lead, Tobias silent at my side, and though he does not touch me, he steadies me.
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#5. 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.
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#6. Fighting for survival in a shattered world ... the truth is her only hope.
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#7. 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.
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#8. I guess I am what I have always been. Not Dauntless, not Abnegation, not factionless. Divergent.
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#9. 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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#10. How many different kinds of ruin do you have to see before you resign yourself to calling it all "ruin"?
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#11. If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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#12. Besides,' she says, 'not every friendship turns into a romance. I haven't tried to kiss you yet.
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#13. This was the first place I everfelt strong. Every time I breathe this air I feel it again.
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#14. Christina,'i say,'The factionless have all the guns.
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#15. Sleep," he says. "I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you." "With what?" "My bare hands, obviously.
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#16. Do me a favor," he says, "and don't call me that.
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#18. 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.
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#19. 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.
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#20. 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?
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#21. You always look like someone's sucked the life right out of you when something fascinates you. -Tris
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#22. Why do you say vague things if you don't want to be asked about them?
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#23. Formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals.
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#24. All three combined is ... a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind.
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#25. 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.
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#26. Maybe now he thinks I'm stupid, or strange. Maybe it was worth it. I
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#27. I chose Dauntless not because they are perfect, but because they are alive, they are free.
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#29. 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?
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#30. 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.
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#31. 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.
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#32. 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.
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#33. 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.
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#36. Is it selfish for me to crave victory or is it brave?
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#37. There are no safe rooms, no safe truths, no safe secrets to tell.
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#38. You have a nice voice,' I say.
'Tris,' he says, 'please be quiet.
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#39. 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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#42. 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.
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#43. I don't know how, but the dormitory smells like sleep - like laundry and shoes and night sweats and morning coffee.
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#44. 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.
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#45. 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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#46. Independent," I say, "and uninvolved. Must be nice
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#47. I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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#48. 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.
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#49. If Eric thinks I did something right, I must have done it wrong.
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#50. 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.
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#51. 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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#52. 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.
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#53. 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.
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#54. Ordinary life surrounds me, and I am
alone with these revelations.
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#55. 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.
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#56. What good is a prepared body if you have a scattered mind?
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#57. She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love.
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#58. 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.
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#59. We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.
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#61. 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.
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#62. 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.
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#63. 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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#64. I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind.
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#65. 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)
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#66. That's what love does. When it's right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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#68. So I am halfway in and halfway out, as always.
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#69. I smirk as Peter misses again. I can't help myself.
"Hey, Peter," I say, " Remember what a target is?
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#71. I saw, for the first time, how thin the line was between fear and love, between reverence and adoration.
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#72. And who really cares if you flash people your underwear, as long as you're kicking the crap out of them?
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#73. 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.
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#75. When you control information, or manipulate it, you don't need force to keep people under your thumb. They stay there willingly.
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#76. I am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the brave.
I suppose that now, I must become more than either.
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#77. 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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#78. Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.
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#79. He looks at me like I am the only thing in the room worth looking at. -Tris (Divergent)
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#80. But time could not move backward. Just as he had been made, he had to be unmade."
pg 299
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#81. My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it.
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#82. He still smiles all the time, but now his smiles look like they're made out of water, about to drip down his face.
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#83. 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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#84. Before I chose Dauntless ... I felt assured of my long lifespan, if nothing else. Now there are no reassurances except that where I go, I go because I choose to.
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#85. toward a table. He starts toward our table and drops into the
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#86. I wanted to show these people who he really was. And pain always did that, took the insides out."
pg 364
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#87. Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here?
I want to be.
I can.
I believe it.
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#88. Do the elevators work?" I ask Uriah, as quietly as I can. "Sure they do." says Zeke, rolling his eyes, "You think I'm stupid enough not to come here early and turn on the emergency generator?" "Yeah," says Uriah. "I kinda do.
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#89. It seems like the rebellions never stop, in the city, in the compound, anywhere. There are just breaths between them, and foolishly, we call those breaths "peace".
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#90. Then I thought of how strong I have become, how secure I feel with the person I now am, and how all along the way he has told me that I am brave, I am respected, I am loved and worth loving.
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#91. I love you." He frowns.
"Say it again."
"Tobias," I say. "I love you.
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#92. The impulse to share anything is a new one, the impulse to hide as natural as breathing
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#93. Half of bravery is perspective. The first time I did this, it was one of the hardest things I had ever done. Now, preparing to jump off a moving train is nothing, because I have done more difficult things in the past few weeks that most people will in a lifetime.
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#94. I can't tell him I need him. I can't need him, period
or really, we can't need each other, because who knows how long either of us will last in this war?
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#96. 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.
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#97. So you're her brother?" says Lynn. "I guess we know who got the good genes."
I laugh at the expression on Caleb's face, his mouth drawn into a slight pucker and his eyes wide.
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#98. All I want to say is that when you stop being delusional and start feeling desperate because you're too inept to figure this out on your own, you know who to come to.
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#99. No factions? A world in which no one knows who they are or where they fit? I can't even fathom it. I imagine only chaos and isolation.
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