1,483 Quotes by Veronica Roth

And what this is, I realize, is life. I don't want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I've been trying to claw my way back to them, and now I am so close and he is telling me not to.

How many different kinds of ruin do you have to see, before you resign yourself to calling it all 'ruin'?

He smells safe, too, like sunlit walks in the orchard and silent breakfastsin the dining hall. And in the moments before I drift off to sleep, I almost forget about our war-torn city and all the conflict that willcome to find us soon, if we don’t find it first.

He wraps his arms around me and holds me tight for a few seconds. Hisbreaths tickle my ear, and I close my eyes, letting myself finally relax. Hesmells like wind and sweat and soap, like Tobias and like safety.

But when you kill someone you love, the hard part is never over. It just gets easier to distract yourself from what you've done.

But I killed a man just like my mother did. David says it’s okay because I didn’t mean to, and because he was about to kill that little kid. But I’m pretty sure my mom didn’t mean to kill my dad, either, so what difference does that make, meaning or not meaning to do something? Accident or on purpose, the result is the same, and that’s one fewer life than there should be in the world.

Luck is simply a construct to make people believe they are in control of some aspect of their destinies.

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

He should be the one to die, part of me thinks.I don't want to lose him, another part argues.I don't know which part to believe.