1,483 Quotes by Veronica Roth

Mockery is childish. It does not become you.

I shower in the dark, barely able to tell soap from conditioner, and tell myself that I will emerge new and strong, that the water will heal me.

Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community.

I want people to come away from my book with questions," she says. "Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

Now i remember why I chose Dauntless. Not because they were brave or anything. But because they were free.

So they don’t go away?” “Sometimes they do. And sometimes new fears replace them. But becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible. It’s learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it, that’s the point.” — Tris and Four

I have a message for the Divergent"I am Divergent."This is not a negotiation"No, it is not."It is a warning"I understand."Every two days until one of you delivers yourself to Erudite headquarters . . ."I will." . . . this will happen again"It will never happen again.

Our city is changing, faster now than ever before, and in order to keep up with it, we'll have to change, too. We'll have to become stronger, braver, better than we are now.

Why, she had once asked her mother, do you bother to keep anything alive when it’ll all be wiped out by Finis?Her mother had shrugged. Why take a shower when you’re just going to get dirty? Why eat when you’re just going to get hungry? Every flower dies eventually, Sam. But not yet.