1,483 Quotes by Veronica Roth

But then I stopped allowing myself to dream, because it was more painful to long for things and never get them than to deal with whatever was in front of me. [...] I'm too old to hear confront nonsense anymore. Too old to believe that everything will be alright.

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

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

I like to hurt people too. I can make the cruelest choice. The difference is, sometimes I don't, and you always do, and that makes you evil.

I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.

You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"P244

I needed that word to tell me who I was when everything else was coming apart around me. But now I'm wondering if I need it anymore, if we ever really need these words...or if we can just be friends or lovers or siblings, defined instead by the choices we make and the love and loyalty that binds us.

Embrace the uncertainty.

I realize that the decision might be simple. It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great act of courage to choose Dauntless, and maybe just choosing one over the other will prove that I belong.