Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
He is not sweet or gentle or particularly kind. But he is smart and brave, and even though he saved me, he treated me like I was strong. That is all I need to know.
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
Though
Dauntless
Strong
Gentle
Need
Particularly
Needs
Treated
Even
Saved
Kind
Brave
Like
Smart
Sweet
More quotes by Veronica Roth
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
I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different. All your life you've been training to forget yourself, so when you're in danger, it becomes your first instinct
Veronica Roth
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
Change, like healing, takes time.
Veronica Roth
I don't see any elderly people in the crowd. Are there any old Dauntless? Do they not last that long, or are they just sent away when they can't jump off moving trains anymore?
Veronica Roth
Some people will always fear change. But we can't indulge them.
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
I hear footsteps and Four's hands wrap around my wrists. I let him pry my hands from my eyes. He encloses one of my hands perfectly between two of his. The warmth of his skin overwhelms the ache in my fingers from holding the bars. You all right? he asks, pressing our hands together. Yeah. He starts to laugh.
Veronica Roth
She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love, not misplace disgust for another person's genetics.
Veronica Roth
Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
Veronica Roth
i like to think that im helping them by hating them
Veronica Roth
You chose us. Now we have to choose you.
Veronica Roth
He doesn’t scowl, but his mouth is so tense that I know he’s angry with me. 'Don’t be an idiot,' he says. 'An idiot?' Is he talking about the blanket? 'You were lying.
Veronica Roth
Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.
Veronica Roth
I love 'Harry Potter.' I'm a huge nerd - I would dress up if I could.
Veronica Roth
I started writing because I decided I was too old to play pretend in the backyard. Then I found that I could create those imaginary worlds on the page.
Veronica Roth
Ser sincero en todo momento debe requerir valor. Yo no sabría hacerlo.
Veronica Roth
It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
Veronica Roth
Maybe I was afraid to trust him with something so personal as my devotion.
Veronica Roth
I was still afraid of him, I knew, but in a different way - I was no longer a child, afraid of the threat my terrifying father posed to my safety. I was a man, afraid of the threat he posed to my character, to my future, to my identity.
Veronica Roth
