Quotes from Veronica Roth

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.

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.

No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know.

I think everyone's a little afraid of being part of a trend, because you get compared to each other. Writers tend to have a lot of camaraderie, and when you're constantly compared to someone else, it kind of damages that camaraderie, but I think this is a great trend. I'm honored to be a part of it in many ways.

But Christina and I are not people who cry together; we're people who fight together. SO I hold my tears in.

The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me.

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

Maybe I was afraid to trust him with something so personal as my devotion.

In order to have peace, we must first have trust.

The truth is... you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back...it hurts.

Fine," he says. "Then I love you.

I love you." He frowns. "Say it again." "Tobias," I say. "I love you.

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.

That is how it feels. Like everything between us is twisted together, friendship and love and family, so I cant tell the difference between any of them.

That's what love does. When it's right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.

There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.

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

And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.

The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs.

Fighting for survival in a shattered world... the truth is her only hope.

I don't believe it is more important to move forward than to know the truth.

She believes that Tobias belongs to her now. She doesn't know the truth, that he belongs to himself.

You know what Abnegation used to say about pride?' 'Something unfavorable,I assume.' I laugh.' Obviously. They said it blinds people to the truth of what they are.

I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.