1,483 Quotes by Veronica Roth

I’ll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it.

His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can’t fill. And then time will pass, and the hole will be gone, like when an organ is removed and the body’s fluids flow into the space it leaves. Humans can’t tolerate emptiness for long.

I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family. And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior.

I would rather be dead than empty.

Blood is a strange color. It’s darker than you expect it to be.

Oh for god’s sake. I’ll just carry you.

I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity.

Little girl, he called me. A little girl who is stressed out to the point of paranoia. That is not me, but now, it’s who the Candor think I am.

It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.