Quote

I should wonder what courage—which is the virtue they most value—has to do with a metal ring through your nostril.

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
Courage
Virtue
Wonder
Nostril
Values
Metal
Metals
Ring
Rings
Value

More quotes by Veronica Roth

Image
Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine.
Veronica Roth
Image
I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.
Veronica Roth
Image
She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love, not misplace disgust for another person's genetics.
Veronica Roth
Image
Creemos enla valentía. Creemos en tomar acciones. Creemos en la liberarnos del miedo y en la adquisición de habilidades necesarias para obligar a que lo malos salga de nuestro mundo para que el bien pueda prosperar y florecer
Veronica Roth
Image
I feel acutely aware of how young I am. In a way that is good. It's productive. It makes me realise that I should be growing as a writer and a person.
Veronica Roth
Image
Who cares about everyone? What about me?
Veronica Roth
Image
Who cares about pretty? I'm going for noticeable.
Veronica Roth
Image
Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing.
Veronica Roth
Image
One Choice One Choice, decided your friends. One Choice, defines your beliefs. One Choice, determines your loyalties - Forever. ONCE CHOICE CAN TRANSFORM YOU
Veronica Roth
Image
I don't want to try to live up to someone who's created something so incredible. I'm just trying to focus on what I'm doing and what I do best. It's sometimes hard to focus in and only think about my books rather than how they measure up to someone else's.
Veronica Roth
Image
it's not about being fearless, it's about acting in spite of fear
Veronica Roth
Image
How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
Veronica Roth
Image
But that wasn´t the first time I ever saw her. I saw her in the hallways at school, and at my mother’s false funeral, and walking the sidewalks in the Abnegation sector. I saw her, but I didn’t see her no one saw her the way she truly was until she jumped. I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.
Veronica Roth
Image
Did you ever meet someone named Caleb? I say. 'Caleb, Fernando says. Yes, there was a Caleb in my initiate class. Brilliant, but he was... what's the colloquial term for it? A suck-up. he smirks.
Veronica Roth
Image
Before she got here everything had stalled inside me, and every morning I was just moving toward nighttime.
Veronica Roth
Image
It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
Veronica Roth
Image
I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.
Veronica Roth
Image
It's then that I realize: Of course Tris would go into the Weapons Lab instead of Caleb. Of course she would.
Veronica Roth
Image
Really? I thought the transfers will go through Four’s landscape,” says Uriah. “Like he would let anyone do that,” she says, snorting. Something inside me gets warm and soft. He let me go through it.
Veronica Roth
Image
About when to let others sacrifice themselves for you, even if its selfish. They say that if the sacrifice is the ultimate way for that person to show you that they love you, let them do it.
Veronica Roth