1,483 Quotes by Veronica Roth

What is wrong with you?? I shake my head. ‘Pull it together.’ And that’s what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up and in like a shoelace. I feel suffocated, but at least I feel strong.

I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving through the world. There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand.

I’ve made my peace with Caleb, but I still can’t be around him for long. His gestures, his inflection, his manner, they are hers. They make him into just a whisper of her, and that is not enough of her, but it is also far too much.

I didn’t realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going.

I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did. I don’t.

I feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.

That night we push our cots just a little closer together, and look into each other’s eyes in the moments before we fall asleep. When he finally drifts off, our fingers are twisted together in the space between the beds. I smile a little, and let myself go.

We may both be bad, but there’s a huge difference between us – I’m not content with being this way.

I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.