110+ Veronica Roth Quotes (Creative, Suspenseful And Inspiring)

Veronica Roth is an American novelist. She is best known for her Divergent book series, which was later adapted into a film franchise. Roth has also written a few standalone novels, such as Carve the Mark and Chosen Ones.

Top 10 Veronica Roth Quotes

1. Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
2. Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
3. It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
4. I'm not Dauntless - I'm Divergent. I am whatever I choose to be.
5. I pout my lower lip for a second, but then I grin as the pieces come together in my mind. "THAT'S why you like me!" I exclaim. "Because you're not very nice either! It makes so much more sense now.
6. Change, like healing, takes time.
7. You're too important to just... die.
8. Are you asking me to undress, Tris?' A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially
9. Your daughter is doing well here. I've been overseeing her training." Since when does "overseeing" include throwing knives at me and scolding me at every opportunity?
10. "What did you do?" I scream. "You die, I die too."

Veronica Roth Image Quotes

I'm not Dauntless - I'm Divergent. I am whatever I choose to be. — Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Short Quotes

• Some things are hard to let go of.
• Why is your heart racing Tris?
• I'm going to stop a revolution,'' I say. I turn right, and Peter follows me.
• What makes you different, makes you dangerous.
• Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
• ...there is power in self-sacrifice.
• Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
• I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.
• Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up
• I only came for Cake" -Tobias Eaton, Divergent

Veronica Roth Famous Quotes And Sayings

His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate. He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life. — Veronica Roth

I'm not Dauntless - I'm Divergent. I am whatever I choose to be. — Veronica Roth

It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else. — Veronica Roth

Tris," he says. "What did they do to you? You're acting like a lunatic." "That's not very nice of you to say," I say. "They put me in a good mood, that's all. And now I really want to kiss you, so if you could just relax- — Veronica Roth

The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel. I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal. — Veronica Roth

When I look at the Abnegation lifestyle as an outsider, I think it’s beautiful. When I watch my family move in harmony; when we go to dinner parties and everyone cleans together afterward without having to be asked; when I see Caleb help strangers carry their groceries, I fall in love with this life all over again. — Veronica Roth

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another. — Veronica Roth

I look older. Maybe it's the short hair or maybe it's just that I wear all that has happened like a mask. Either way, I always thought I would be happy when I stopped looking like a child. But all I feel is a lump in my throat. I am no longer the daughter my parents knew. They will never know me as I am now. — Veronica Roth

I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent. — Veronica Roth

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater. — Veronica Roth

Those who blamed aggression formed Amity.’… ‘Those who blamed ignorance became the Erudite.’… ‘Those who blamed duplicity created Candor.’… ‘Those who blamed selfishness made Abnegation.’… ‘And those who blamed cowardice were the Dauntless. — Veronica Roth

Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you. — Veronica Roth

Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine. — Veronica Roth

Who cares about pretty? I'm going for noticeable. — 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

I realize that the decision might be simple. It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great act of courage to choose Dauntless, and maybe just choosing one over the other will prove that I belong. — Veronica Roth

I settle into their pace. The uniform pounding of feet in my ears and the homogeneity of the people around me makes me believe that I could choose this. I could be subsumed into Abnegation’s hive mind, projecting always outward. — Veronica Roth

My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem. — 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

Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is. — Veronica Roth

People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them. — 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

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it. — 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

What is wrong with you?' I shake my head. 'Pull it together.' And that's what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up and in like a shoelace. I feel suffocated, but at least I feel strong. — Veronica Roth

I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family. And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior — Veronica Roth

But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else. — Veronica Roth

And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her. — Veronica Roth

A Dauntless Ferris wheel wouldn’t have cars. You would just hang on tight with your hands, and good luck to you. — Veronica Roth

I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity. — Veronica Roth

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

To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself. — Veronica Roth

That execution will take place here." She runs her fingertips over the table beneath her. "On this table. I thought it would be interesting to show you." "I knew what would happen when I came here," I say. "It's just a table. And I'd like to go back to my room now. — Veronica Roth

Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames. — Veronica Roth

I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening. — Veronica Roth

I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my mother, and the pain they bequeathed to me like a family heirloom, handed down from generation to generation. - Tobias Eaton — Veronica Roth

Courageous? Courageous would have been admitting weakness and leaving Dauntless, no matter what shame accompanied it. Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine. — Veronica Roth

The truth has a way of changing people's plans. — Veronica Roth

There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage - in controlling something, period. — Veronica Roth

Politeness is deception in pretty packaging. — Veronica Roth

Sometimes I just... want to see it again. Want to see you awake. — Veronica Roth

'Divergent' was my utopian world. I mean, that wasn't the plan. I never even set out to write dystopian fiction, that's just what I had when I was finished. At the beginning, I was just writing about a place I found interesting and a character with a compelling story, and as I began to build the world, I realized that it was my utopia. — Veronica Roth

I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me. — Veronica Roth

Grabbing hold of facts in the midst of shock is very Erudite of him. — Veronica Roth

You're not a coward just because you don't want to hurt people. — Veronica Roth

A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy. — Veronica Roth

Sorry, am I being rude?" she asks. "I'm used to saying whatever is on my mind. Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging — Veronica Roth

I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten. — Veronica Roth

I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart. — Veronica Roth

Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge. — Veronica Roth

I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both. — 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

"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

Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged. — Veronica Roth

Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake. — Veronica Roth

I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me. — Veronica Roth

Learning how to think in the midst of fear is a lesson that everyone needs to learn. — Veronica Roth

I do know who you are. I just needed to be reminded. — Veronica Roth

Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing. — Veronica Roth

I was born for Abegnation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But then I met 'her', and...I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision. — Veronica Roth

I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could. — Veronica Roth

Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places. — Veronica Roth

Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind. — Veronica Roth

She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own. — Veronica Roth

No. Because it's so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?" "And a half," he says. — Veronica Roth

His eyes search the crowd until they find my face. My heartbeat lives in my throat; lives in my cheeks. "I still don't understand," he says softly, "how she knew that it would work. — Veronica Roth

Our eyes meet. I hear a train horn, so faint it could be wind whistling through an alleyway. But I know it when I hear it. It sounds like the Dauntless, calling me to to them. — Veronica Roth

People tend to overestimate my character," I say quietly. "They think that because I'm small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can't possibly be cruel. But they're wrong. — Veronica Roth

What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face. “Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel. — Veronica Roth

What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you? — Veronica Roth

To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community. My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live. — Veronica Roth

What's this about flashing underwear?" says Uriah, sidestepping a bunk. "Whatever it is, I'm in. — Veronica Roth

An artist gives. Gives visually, gives through courses, or with free advice, through generosity of spirit and through a need to share. — Veronica Roth

I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left [the gun] upstairs. — Veronica Roth

My mother told me once that we can't survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live. — Veronica Roth

Human reason can excuse any evil. — Veronica Roth

Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it. — Veronica Roth

You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it. — Veronica Roth

That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel. — Veronica Roth

Sleep,” he says. “I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.” “With what?” “My bare hands, obviously. — Veronica Roth

So small as to be negligible. It's strange, but there's something in that thought that makes me feel almost...free. — Veronica Roth

No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens. — Veronica Roth

I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there's nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all. — Veronica Roth

I smirk as Peter misses again. I can't help myself. "Hey, Peter," I say, " Remember what a target is? — Veronica Roth

Sometimes,” he says, sliding his arm across my shoulders, “people just want to be happy, even if it’s not real. — Veronica Roth

Today you will choose your factions. Until this point you have followed your parents’ paths, your parents’ rules. Today you will find your own path, make your own rules. — Veronica Roth

We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest." He clears his throat. "I continually struggle with kindness. — Veronica Roth

So now we all know," says Four, quietly, "that you are afraid of a short, skinny girl from Abnegation." His mouth curls into a smile. — Veronica Roth

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

I am selfish. I am brave. — Veronica Roth

Who cares about everyone? What about me? — Veronica Roth

Life Lessons by Veronica Roth

1. Veronica Roth teaches us to never give up on our dreams and to always strive to be our best selves.
2. She also emphasizes the importance of resilience and perseverance in the face of adversity.
3. Finally, Roth encourages us to take risks and to be open to new experiences, as they can often lead to unexpected and rewarding outcomes.