Veronica Roth
Veronica Roth
Veronica Rothis an American novelist and short story writer known for her debut New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy, consisting of Divergent, Insurgent, and Allegiant; and Four: A Divergent Collection. Divergent was the recipient of the Goodreads Favorite Book of 2011 and the 2012 winner for Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth19 August 1988
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
For me, it feels like driving from truth into a lie, from adulthood to childhoold. I watch the land of pavement and glass and metal turn into an empty field. The snow is falling softly now, and I can faintly see the city's skyline up ahead, the buildings just a shade darker than the clouds.
One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?
How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me-
You’re too important to just … die.” He shakes his head. He won’t even look at me—his eyes keep shifting across my face, to the wall behind me or the ceiling above me, to everything but me. I am too stunned to be angry. “I’m not important. Everyone will do just fine without me,” I say. “Who cares about everyone? What about me?
Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
When i get home, I sit on the front step and take deep breaths of the cool spring air for a few minutes. My mother was the one who taught me to steal moments like those, moments of freedom, though she didn't now it. I watched her... But I learned something else from watching her too, which is that the free moments always have to end.
But now I know how large the world is... Well. I suppose I have grown to large out of my faction. As a consequence.
It's not often real that you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest part of someone. It's not comfortable what you do.
Choices can be made again." -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
You're not a coward just because you don't want to hurt people.
We can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to.
Just do what you're supposed to.
I’d rather eat out of a can than be strangled by a faction.