Quote

What good is a prepared body if you have a scattered mind?

Veronica Roth

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
Prepared
Body
Mind
Good
Scattered

More quotes by Veronica Roth

Image
That's what love does. When it's right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
Veronica Roth
Image
Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
Veronica Roth
Image
Out of my peripheral vision, I see Four shove the door open and walk out. Apparently this fight isn't interesting enough for him. Or maybe he's going to figure out why everything's spinning like a top, and I don't blame him I want to know the answer too.
Veronica Roth
Image
I can't tell him I need him. I can't need him, period -- or really, we can't need each other, because who knows how long either of us will last in this war?
Veronica Roth
Image
Do it fast, you pansycake.
Veronica Roth
Image
What do-- Tobias's voice. Tobias! Oh my God. Oh-- Spare me your blubbering, okay? Peter says. She's not dead she's just paralyzed. It'll only last for about a minute. Now get ready to run. I don't understand. How does Peter know? Let me carry her, Tobias says. No. You're a better shot than I am. Take my gun. I'll carry her.
Veronica Roth
Image
You want him to walk? Caleb demands. Are you insane? Did I shoot him in the leg? I say. No. He walks. Where do we go, Peter?
Veronica Roth
Image
I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
Veronica Roth
Image
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.
Veronica Roth
Image
She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.
Veronica Roth
Image
Independent and uninvolved. Must be nice. -Tris
Veronica Roth
Image
He stares at me, and I don't look away. He isn't a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive. Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It's my choice.
Veronica Roth
Image
Soon I will honor my parents by dying as they died. and if all they believed about death was true, soon I will join them in whatever comes next.
Veronica Roth
Image
Any idiot can stand in front of a target, I say. It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall is a sign of cowardice Then it should be easy for you, Eric sys. If you're willing ot take his place.
Veronica Roth
Image
I slowly realized that perfectionism just not that important. What's more important is to try to love the people around you. Whatever that means at a particular time is the best you can do.
Veronica Roth
Image
I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
Veronica Roth
Image
This was the first place I everfelt strong. Every time I breathe this air I feel it again.
Veronica Roth
Image
He is strong, and lithe, and certain. And he is mine.
Veronica Roth
Image
There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.
Veronica Roth
Image
Some people will always fear change. But we can't indulge them.
Veronica Roth