1,483 Quotes by Veronica Roth

In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life.

I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.

My mother told me once that we can't survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.

I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.

It's when you're acting selflessly that you are at your bravest." --Four in Divergent

Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.

So small as to be negligible. It's strange, but there's something in that thought that makes me feel almost...free.

Decades ago, our ancestors realized that it is not just political ideology, religious belief, race, or nationalism that is to blame for a warring world. Rather, they determined that it was the fault of human personality - of humankind's inclination towards evil, in whatever form that is. They divided into factions that sought to eradicate those qualities they believed responsible for the world's disarray.

My Tris should look pale and small--she is pale and small, after all--but instead the room is full of her.