1,483 Quotes by Veronica Roth

I fell in love with him. But I don’t just stay with him by default as if there’s no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.

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.

I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don’t see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can’t be; someone I can be.

I don’t have a bullet in my head, do I? So I’m fine.

You’re not a coward just because you don’t want to hurt people.

There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand.

I don’t see any elderly people in the crowd. Are there any old Dauntless? Do they not last that long, or are they just sent away when they can’t jump off moving trains anymore?

I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.

What’s worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?