Veronica Roth Quotes

American author

Veronica Roth is an American author of young adult fiction. She is most known for the three books in the Divergent series: Divergent, Insurgent, and Allegiant.

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Alternative Names: Veronica Anne Roth

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Can I ask why you’re throwing knives at cheese?’
‘Caleb came by to discuss something,’ Tobias says, leaning his head against the wall as he looks at me. ‘And knife-throwing just came up somehow.’
‘As it so often does,’ I say, a small smile inching across my face.

I have done bad things. I can't take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.

I don’t know how long it takes for me to realize that isn’t going to happen,
that she is gone. But when I do I feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.

"Let me get this straight. So you left the Dauntless compound to get ready for war... and took your makeup bag with you?"
"Yep. Figured it would be harder for anyone to shoot me if they saw how devastatingly attractive I was..."

I'm going to shoot a muffin off Marlene's head.

"Do the elevators work?" I ask Uriah, as quietly as I can. "Sure they do." says Zeke, rolling his eyes, "You think I'm stupid enough not to come here early and turn on the emergency generator?"
"Yeah," says Uriah. "I kinda do."

We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.

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

I can’t leave now. I like her too much. There, I said it. But I won’t say it again.

"Caleb," I say, "I love you."
His eyes gleam with tear as he says, "I love you, too, Beatrice."

I have your back. I didn't mean only when it's easy. All the time.

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process.

My mother was Dauntless.

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

I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity.

His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pass, and the hole will be gone, like when an organ is removed and the body's fluids flow into the space it leaves. Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.