1,483 Quotes by Veronica Roth

Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.

I never used to understand why people bothered to hold hands as they walked, but then he runs one of his fingertips down my palm, and I shiver and understand it completely.

I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no choice in the matter afterward. And maybe that’s tue of beginnings, but it’s not true of this, now. 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.

Fear is more powerful than pain.

I have done bad things. I can’t take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.

But Christina and I are not people who cry together; we’re people who fight together. SO I hold my tears in.

They all laugh. We all laugh. And it occurs to me that I might be meeting Tobias’s true faction. They are not characterized by a particular virtue. They claim all colors, all activities, all virtues, and all flaws as their own.

I also don’t believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much like an Erudite afterlife to me, all accuracy and no feeling.

How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me-.