1,483 Quotes by Veronica Roth

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

I grin at the fierce burn in my legs, in my chest. Using pain to relieve pain. It doesn't make much sense.

The black-clothed bodies smear together in front of me. I am empty. Everything has spilled out of me.

That is death - shifting from "is" to "was.

I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no choice in the matter afterward. And maybe that’s true of beginnings, but it’s not true of this, now.I fell in love with him. But I don’t just stay with him by default as if there’s no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.

The only reason I haven't shot you yet is because he's the one who should get to do it," I say. "Stay away from him or I'll decide I no longer care.

Like so much of what she said about herself, it was both a joke and not a joke.

I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding,

(...) a man encased in ice, his eyes hard and his voice like a frosty exhale.