1,483 Quotes by Veronica Roth

I do like to hit people-I like the explosion of power and energy, and the feeling that I am untouchable because I can hurt people. But I hate that part of myself, because it is the part of me that is the most broken.

I’m sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what’s wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.

To me there’s a difference between not being afraid and acting in spite of fear, as he does.

And I stand in the hallway, alone, grinning like an idiot.

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn’t. It isn’t.

Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

I tick off each quality in my mind as he says it – fear, low intelligence, dishonesty, aggression, selfishness. He is talking about the factions. And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite, intelligent but vain; the Amity, peaceful but passive; the Candor, honest but inconsiderate; the Abnegation, selfless but stifling.

I get the strange urge to hit my head against the wall. Other people’s sobs make me feel uncomfortable.

Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life, community.