Quotes from Veronica Roth

I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.

People make me key chains... someone attached a Dauntless symbol to a silver pen. That one is what I use to sign books. I use that a lot. I like to keep them around because they remind me that people are waiting for these books and that they really love them. It gives me motivation in those times when I'm not feeling very motivated.

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

Morning," I say. "Shh," she says. "If you don't acknowledge it, maybe it will go away.

You are far less likely to soil your pants and cry for your mother if you're prepared to defend yourself.

Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.

Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care how much money a person makes.

We believe that peace is hard-won, That sometimes it is necessary to fight for peace. But more than that, we believe that Justice is more important than peace.

...there is power in self-sacrifice.

God Tris, are you even human?

Oh for god's sake. I'll just carry you.

Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.

Sometimes pain is for the greater good.

I wonder if this is how is is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likable as good men.

So you're her brother? Says Linn. I guess we know who got the good genes.

My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldn't belong there, among people who give without thinking and care without trying.

It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.

He holds my face in both hands and kisses me back. I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored-for good, I hope.

The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.

I'll only go if there's cake.~Tobias "Four

Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.

I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.

Shh," I say. "Arms around me." Obediently, he slips both arms around my waist. I smile at the wall. I am not enjoying this. I am not, not even a little bit, no.

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.