1,483 Quotes by Veronica Roth

I don’t know how long it takes for me to realize that isn’t going to happen,that she is gone. But when I do I feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.

What did you do?" I scream."You die, I die too.

I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint.

All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.

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

He holds my face in both hands and kisses me back. I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored-for good, I hope.

Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that "something" is a fake bathroom break.

I am brave, I am selfless, I am Divergent.

Did you just make a joke, Tris? We should have you on painkillers more often if your going to start cracking jokes.