1,483 Quotes by Veronica Roth

I’m going to shoot a muffin off Marlene’s head.

In the days that follow, it’s movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.

The power to make people fear you is the only power you need.

How can you fail a test you aren’t allowed to prepare for?

I note how calm she looks and how focused she is. She is well-practiced in the art of losing herself. I can’t say the same of myself.

And I don’t want to die anymore. I am up to the challenge of bearing the guilt and the grief, up to facing the difficulties that life has put in my path. Some days are harder than others, but I am ready to live each one of them. I can’t sacrifice myself, this time.

If you are really one of us, it won’t matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.

Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way... But our minds move a dozen different directions. We can’t be confined to one way of thinking...

Don’t confuse your grief with guilt.