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"I had one of those headaches. It kept pounding and got into that crazy realm where the guillotine seems like a good idea."

"There's no way to tell what will make someone break down in tears. There are some who will cry at the merest melancholy word, and there are some who need the longest, cruelest speech to even dampen one eyelash. There are those who will cry at any sad song but no sad book, and there are those who are immune to the most saddening newspaper articles but will weep for days over a terrible meal. People cry at silence or at violence, in a graveyard or a schoolyard."

"The lonely people have taught me, that I am not alone."

"I wept for me, for my sister, for things I couldn't even begin to put into words, and might never be able to explain. But it felt something like this: I used to walk on my feet. Now all I knew how to do was crawl. And I wasn't sure how long it was going to take for me to get up off my knees and regain my balance, but I suspected that when I did, I would never walk the same way again."

"It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn't they?"

"I'm pretty lost in becoming all this frost. Bitter, like Winter. Strung-out like a string of pearls."

"What will I do if I find myself with a heart?" "Lose it constantly, I imagine."
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"She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless."


"Because inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom.. and as hard as I try, I cannot kill it."


"We could visit him," suggests Will. "But what would we say? 'I didn't know you that well, but I'm sorry you got stabbed in the eye'?"


"He is stronger than anyone I know, & warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, & will keep, for the rest of my life."


"Caleb and Tris exchange a look. The skin on his face and on her knuckles is nearly the same colour, purple-blue-green, as if drawn with ink. This is what happens when siblings collide - they injure each other in the same way."


"So you're her brother? says Lynn. "I guess we know who got the good genes.I laugh at the expression on Caleb's face, his mouth drawn into a slight pucker and his eyes wide."


"He must have stood there for a long time, making a list of all the terrible things he had done-almost killinng me was one of those thingss-and another list of all the good, heroic, brave things he had not done, and then decided that he was tired. Tired, not just of living, but of existing. Tired of being Al."
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