Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives.
Veronica Roth
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
Time
Sharpening
Like
Babysitter
Divergent
Spends
Eric
Hiring
Knives
Leaving
More quotes by Veronica Roth
It's what you deserve to hear, I say firmly, my eyes going cloudy with tears. That you're whole, that you're worth loving, that you're the best person I've ever known.
Veronica Roth
The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.
Veronica Roth
I also wanted to ask you if we can talk to the Erudite you're keeping safe here, I say. I know they're hidden, but I need access to them. And what do you intend to do? she says. Shoot them, I say, rolling my eyes. That isn't funny.
Veronica Roth
We may both be bad, but there’s a huge difference between us—I’m not content with being this way.
Veronica Roth
Fear doesn't shut you down it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating. He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake.
Veronica Roth
In some parts of the ancient world, the hawk symbolized the sun. Back when I got this, I figured if I always had the sun on me, I wouldn't be afraid of the dark
Veronica Roth
I'm a fairly religious person, so I believe in some things that sound a little crazy I'm sure, depending on where you're standing. I believe in leaving room for things that you can't explain in the universe, and you don't have to be religious to leave room for those things.
Veronica Roth
Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
Veronica Roth
Choices can be made again. -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
Veronica Roth
My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
Veronica Roth
I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
Veronica Roth
The truth has a way of changing people's plans.
Veronica Roth
In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to be strong and make my own choices and do what's best in my life, so if you're dating someone who doesn't want you to be the best person you can be, you shouldn't be dating them.
Veronica Roth
Being selfless is not that different from being brave. It is when you are selfless that you are the bravest.
Veronica Roth
It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.
Veronica Roth
It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered.
Veronica Roth
I get up, because I’m supposed to, but if it were up to me, I’d stay in my seat for the rest of time.
Veronica Roth
It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do.
Veronica Roth
But Christina and I are not people who cry together we're people who fight together. SO I hold my tears in.
Veronica Roth
I will be my undoing, If I become my obsession. I will forget the ones I love, If I do not serve them. I will war with others, If I refuse to see them. Therefore, I choose to turn away From my reflection, To rely not on myself But on my brothers and sisters, To project always outward Until I disappear [And only God remains.]
Veronica Roth
