1,483 Quotes by Veronica Roth


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    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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    I started writing because I decided I was too old to play pretend in the backyard. Then I found that I could create those imaginary worlds on the page.

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    Sometimes I see him as just another person, and sometimes I feel the sight of him in my gut, like a deep ache.

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    I have something to tell you," he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hand and look back at him. "I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I’m waiting until I’m sure to tell you, though.

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    I have a message for the Divergent" I am Divergent. "This is not a negotiation" No, it is not. "It is a warning" I understand. "Every two days until one of you delivers yourself to Erudite headquarters . . ." I will. " . . . this will happen again" It will never happen again.

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    No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know.

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    I should wonder what courage—which is the virtue they most value—has to do with a metal ring through your nostril.

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