Veronica Anne Roth is an American novelist and short-story writer, known for her debut New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy, consisting of Divergent, Insurgent, and Allegiant. This inspirational Veronica Roth quotes will change your life.
Best Veronica Roth Quotes
- “Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.” – Veronica Roth
- “She can’t possibly be me, though she moves when I move” – Veronica Roth
- “Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second like someone pierced it with a needle.” – Veronica Roth
- “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
- “I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.” – Veronica Roth
- “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
- “The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.” – Veronica Roth
- “Some people will always fear change. But we can’t indulge them.” – Veronica Roth
- “I am a naturally curious person. -Tris” – Veronica Roth
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“Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.” – Veronica Roth
- “I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.” – Veronica Roth
- “Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.” – Veronica Roth
- “It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.” – Veronica Roth
- “My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.” – Veronica Roth
- “Come on, ‘he says.’ I have something else to show you.” – Veronica Roth
- “You can’t be fearless, remember? Because you still care about things. About your life.” – Veronica Roth
- “We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.” – Veronica Roth
- “I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.” – Veronica Roth
- “I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.” – Veronica Roth
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“Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.” – Veronica Roth
- “Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.” – Veronica Roth
- “But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.” – Veronica Roth
- “Lies require commitment.” – Veronica Roth
- “I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.” – Veronica Roth
- “Ingenuity requires creativity.” – Veronica Roth
- “Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.” – Veronica Roth
- “You chose us. Now we have to choose you.” – Veronica Roth
- “I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.” – Veronica Roth
- “Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.” – Veronica Roth
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“It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.” – Veronica Roth
- “Reading is such a huge part of my life.” – Veronica Roth
- “I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.” – Veronica Roth
- “A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.” – Veronica Roth
- “Change, like healing, takes time.” – Veronica Roth
- “In ‘Insurgent’ we realize how large the world really is” – Veronica Roth
- “There is always something to learn, always something that is important to understand” – Veronica Roth
- “Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.” – Veronica Roth
- “Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.” – Veronica Roth
- “Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.” – Veronica Roth
- “We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.” – Veronica Roth
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“I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.” – Veronica Roth
- “Resisting is worth doing.” – Veronica Roth
- “Human reason can excuse any evil.” – Veronica Roth
- “Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.” – Veronica Roth
- “I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.” – Veronica Roth
- “Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.” – Veronica Roth
- “…there is power in self-sacrifice.” – Veronica Roth
- “You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.” – Veronica Roth
- “Desperation can make a person do surprising things.” – Veronica Roth
- “It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.” – Veronica Roth
