Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
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
Looks
Torso
Sometimes
Taller
Like
Dense
World
Inches
Collection
Collections
Doe
Look
More quotes by Veronica Roth
Yes, she says, her eyes bright with tears. My dear child, you've done so well.
Veronica Roth
And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel the Erudite, intelligent but vain the Amity, peaceful but passive the Candor, honest but inconsiderate the Abnegation, selfless but stifling.
Veronica Roth
I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint.
Veronica Roth
Christina,'i say,'The factionless have all the guns.
Veronica Roth
I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave
Veronica Roth
He's one of the last friends I have, she says, her voice breaking. I don't know if I'll ever be able to look at you the same way again.
Veronica Roth
Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.' 'Well,' he says, 'I would only go if there was cake.
Veronica Roth
I do trust you, is what I want to say. But it isn't true -- I didn't trust him to love me despite the terrible things I had done. I don't trust anyone to do that, but that isn't his problem it's mine.
Veronica Roth
I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
Veronica Roth
Color fills her cheeks, and I think it again: that Johanna Reyes might still be beautiful. Except now I think that she isn't just beautiful in spite of the scar, she's somehow beautiful with it, like Lynn with her buzzed hair, like Tobias with the memories of his father's cruelty that he wears like armor, like my mother in her plain gray clothing.
Veronica Roth
Grabbing hold of facts in the midst of shock is very Erudite of him.
Veronica Roth
I'll be your family now, he says. I love you, I say. He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms for stability as he considers his response. He frowns at me. Say it again. Tobias, I say, I love you.
Veronica Roth
If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.
Veronica Roth
Tris, said tobias. I love you
Veronica Roth
I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.
Veronica Roth
Beatrice, she says. Beatrice, we have to run. She pulls my arm across her shoulders and hauls me to my feet. She is dressed like my mother and she looks like my mother, but she is holding a gun, and the determined look in her eyes is unfamiliar to me.
Veronica Roth
Thank you for your honesty.
Veronica Roth
The only reason I haven't shot you yet is because he's the one who should get to do it, I say. Stay away from him or I'll decide I no longer care.
Veronica Roth
Guilt [is] a tool, rather than a weapon against the self.
Veronica Roth
The gun goes off. I fall.
Veronica Roth