Quotes By Author: Veronica Roth

“It’s hard to know what’s right in this life,’ she said. ‘We do what we can, but what we really need is mercy. Do you know who taught me that?’ A grin. ‘You.”

“It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.”

“Il dolore aveva un suo modo di scomporre il tempo. Pensavo al minuto successivo, all’ora successiva. Non c’era abbastanza spazio nella mia mente per mettere insieme tutti quei pezzi, per trovare le parole per riassumerla nella sua interezza.Ma la parte dell'”andare avanti”, per quella le parole le avevo.’Trova un modo per andare avanti’ dissi. ‘Non deve necessariamente essere buono, o nobile. Basta che sia un motivo.’Conoscevo il mio: c’era una fame dentro di me e c’era sempre stata. Una fame più forte del dolore, più forte dell’orrore. Continuava a mordere anche dopo che ogni altra cosa dentro di me si era arresa. E quando finalmente le diedi un nome, scoprii che era qualcosa di molto semplice: desiderio di vivere.”

“That is death – shifting from “is” to “was.”

“I breathe in. The water will wash my wounds clean. I breathe out. My mother submerged me in water when I was a baby, to give me to God. It has been a long time since I thought about God, but I think about him now. It is only natural. I am glad, suddenly, that I shot Eric in the foot instead of the head.”

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

“Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.”

“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.”

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

“She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.”

“You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.”

“Lynn, she saved half our faction from this stuff,” says Marlene, tapping the bandage on her arm from where the Dauntless traitors shot her. “Well, half of half of our faction.””In some circles they call that a quarter, Mar,” Lynn says.”

“What do you think they’re going to do to us when they find us guilty?” she says after a few minutes of silence have passed.”Honestly?””Does now seem like the time for honesty?”I look at her from the corner of my eye. “I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.”

“Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives.”

“I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.”