1,483 Quotes by Veronica Roth

Your powers of deductive reasoning are stunning,” spits Tobias. “Consider me awed.

Caleb and Tris exchange a look. The skin on his face and on her knuckles is nearly the same colour, purple-blue-green, as if drawn with ink. This is what happens when siblings collide – they injure each other in the same way.

I know some things – I know that I’m not alone, that I have friends, that I’m in love. I know that I don’t want to die, and for me that’s something – more than I could have said a few weeks ago.

I think of the motto I read in my Faction History textbook: Faction before blood. More than family, our factions are where we belong. Can that possibly be right?

I like to think I’m helping them by hating them. I’m reminding them that they aren’t God’s gift to humankind.

But when you kill someone you love, the hard part is never over. It just gets easier to distract yourself from what you’ve done.

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.

You know, there’s a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it’s coward.

It’s strange to see people you don’t know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks.