1,483 Quotes by Veronica Roth

Why are you constantly escorting me places?” I say. “Isn’t there a depraved activity you’re supposed to be taking part in? Kicking puppies or spying on girls while they change, or something?

Learning how to think in the midst of fear is a lesson that everyone needs to learn.

His fingers leave streaks of cold on my skin, invisible to the eye, and I think about wrapping his shirt around my fist and pulling him in to kiss me; I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

I get up, because I’m supposed to, but if it were up to me, I’d stay in my seat for the rest of time.

What irritates me most about him is his natural goodness, his inborn selflessness.

It's like he knows, he knows I have a thing for her.

Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up.

But I think that no matter how smart, people usually see what they’re already looking for, that’s all.

I READ SOMEWHERE, once, that crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion. I 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, toward Tobias, and, above all, toward life. And as hard as I try, I cannot kill it. So I sob into my hands instead.