1,483 Quotes by Veronica Roth

- It doesn't do anything obvious. But it might be able to do something in here. - Then she touched her hand to her heart. - Beautiful things sometimes do.

Why is your heart racing Tris?

I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Becauseinside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom, toward Tobias, and, aboveall, toward life. And as hard as I try, I cannot kill it.

You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.

Human reason can excuse any evil.

It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.

Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words "Thank you for your honesty" at different volumes and pitches, and my anger begins to dissolve.

If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?

I am afraid that if I start to sob, I will never stop until I shrivel up like a raisin.