Quote

I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn’t some faction archetype. But the Tris who’s trying as hard as she can to destroy herself … I can’t love her.

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
Hard
Decisions
Shakes
Hem
Trying
Mines
Scream
Tris
Believe
Angry
Steady
Faction
Love
Decision
Shirts
Insurgent
Eye
Loyalty
Divergent
Makes
Apart
Archetype
Hands
Destroy
Factions
Stills
Mouths
Foreheads

More quotes by Veronica Roth

Image
My parents did love each other. Enough to forsake plans and factions. Enough to defy “faction before blood.” Blood before faction--no, love before faction, always. - Tris Prior
Veronica Roth
Image
I kiss him as the train slides into unlit, uncertain land. I kiss him for as long as I want, for longer than I should, given that my brother sits three feet away from me.
Veronica Roth
Image
I ignore my fear. When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist.
Veronica Roth
Image
Learning how to think in the midst of fear is a lesson that everyone needs to learn.
Veronica Roth
Image
Is there any other way to Erudite headquarters? I say. Not that I now of, says Cara. Unless you want to jump from one roof to another. She laughs a little as she says it, like it's a joke. I raise my eyebrows at her. Wait, she says. You aren't considering---?
Veronica Roth
Image
The official strategy is defensive pessimism, always.
Veronica Roth
Image
I decide to do what I always do when I'm not sure what's going on: I act like everyone else.
Veronica Roth
Image
A breeze blows through the alley, pushing me to one side, and I think of scaling the Ferris wheel with Tobias. He kept me steady then. There is no one left to keep me steady now.
Veronica Roth
Image
Are you conceding?' he says, his mouth falling open with mock surprise. 'Seems like that serum did you some good after all...' I shove him as hard as I can. 'Take that back. Take it back now.' 'Okay, okay!' He puts up his hands. 'It's just... I'm not very nice either, you know. That's why I like you so- ' 'Out!' I shout, pointing at the door.
Veronica Roth
Image
Relax Beatrice, I've driven a car before.' MARCUS 'I've done a lot of things before, but that doesn't mean I'm any good at them!' TRIS
Veronica Roth
Image
Tris, said tobias. I love you
Veronica Roth
Image
I need the protection of seeming weak.
Veronica Roth
Image
We are not the same. But we are, somehow, one.
Veronica Roth
Image
Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.
Veronica Roth
Image
It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
Veronica Roth
Image
I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
Veronica Roth
Image
He looks like a man who has spent most of his life frowning.
Veronica Roth
Image
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
Image
Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.
Veronica Roth
Image
The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me.
Veronica Roth