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Veronica Roth (born August 19, 1988) is an American novelist best known for her bestselling Divergent trilogy, which includes Divergent, Insurgent, and Allegiant. The series, set in a dystopian Chicago, explores themes of identity, choice, and societal structure. Roth graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in creative writing. She published Divergent at age 21, and the series has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, inspiring a successful film franchise. Roth continues to write and lives in Chicago with her family.

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Famous Veronica Roth Quotes

“I thought that when I spilled on secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I’m finding.”

Trust Secrets Confiding

Book:Four: A Divergent Story Collection

Source: Four: A Divergent Story Collection

“I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient. There's nothing especially brave about wandering dark streets with no flashlight, but we are not supposed to need help, even from light. We are supposed to be capable of anything. I like that. Because there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready.”

Strength Bravery Divergent

Book:Divergent

Source: Divergent

“Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion.”

Pain Emotion Tears Crying Divergent Insurgent

Book:Insurgent

Source: Insurgent

“She really just thought people were better off staying away from her.”

Life Reality Truth Honesty Depression Anxiety

Book:Carve the Mark

Source: Carve the Mark

“I don’t want to die.”

Dying

Book:Insurgent

Source: Insurgent

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

Romantic

Book:Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene

Source: Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene

“I like to hurt people too. I can make the cruelest choice. The difference is, sometimes I don't, and you always do, and that makes you evil.”

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Book:Allegiant

Source: Allegiant

“I don't find it painful to be ordinary.”

Ordinary Painful

Book:When Among Crows

Source: When Among Crows

“Je crois que c'est toi qui ment. Tu prétends que tu m'aimes et que tu me fais confiance, mais à la seconde où cette confiance, cet amour, sont mis à l'épreuve, tout ça part en fumée. Alors Tobias, c'est toi qui devait me mentir en me disant tout ça. C'est toi car je ne veux pas croire que ce prétendu amour soit si fragile. Je suis toujours celle qui aurait préféré mourir plutôt que te tuer. Je suis exactement celle que tu crois. Et je sais que cette information va tout changer. Elle va changer tout ce qu'on a fait et tout ces qu'on s'apprête à faire." - Tris à Tobias, Divergente (T2- L'insurrection),”

Love Real Quotes Lies Divergent Series

Book:Insurgent

Source: Insurgent

“But Tris earned my respect when she jumped first, into the net ; when she challenged me at her first meal ; when she wasn’t deterred by my unpleasant responses to questions ; when she spoke up for Al and stared me right in the eye as I threw knives at her. She’s not my subordinate, couldn’t possibly be. — Four”

Love Respect Bravery

Book:Four: A Divergent Story Collection

Source: Four: A Divergent Story Collection

“I clench my teeth as tears come. I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them. ~ 'Tris”

Fear Tears Frustration Crying

Book:Divergent

Source: Divergent

“I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice." "What Choice?" "Dauntless," he says. "I was born Abnegation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But I met her, and... I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision." Her.”

Love Romantic Dauntless Abnegation Tobias Eaton Tris Prior Faction

Book:Insurgent

Source: Insurgent

“The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature itself, or at least what it has become.”

Human Nature

Book:Insurgent

Source: Insurgent

“It's not often you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest parts of someone. It's not comfortable when you do.”

Dark Human Nature Fragile

Book:Allegiant

Source: Allegiant

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

Life Humanity Freedom Beast

Book:Insurgent

Source: Insurgent

“If we're afraid to be ourselves, then who are we? Where's there left to hide? But if we could concur that fear, we just might be strong, powerful. We just might be unstoppable.”

Inspirational Attitude

Book:Divergent Series Complete Box Set

Source: Divergent Series Complete Box Set

“But our minds move in a dozen different directions. We can’t be confined to one way of thinking.”

Living

Book:Divergent

Source: Divergent

“I try to see only the good in him; I try.”

Optimistic

Book:Divergent

Source: Divergent

“Sleep," he says. "I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you." "With what?" "My bar hands, obviously." In the moments before i drift off to sleep, i hear him whisper, "I love you, Tris.”

Love Inspirational Happiness Motivation Positive Couple Falling In Love Positivity Happy Lust

Book:Insurgent

Source: Insurgent

“It’s getting more difficult to be wise,” he says, laughing into my ear. I smile at him. “I think that’s how it’s supposed to be.”

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Book:Allegiant

Source: Allegiant

“He still smiles all the time, but now his smiles look like they're made out of water, about to drip down his face.”

Sadness Smile Uriah

Book:Allegiant

Source: Allegiant

“The Amity exchange smiles. They are dressed comfortably in red or yellow. Every time I see them, they seem kind, loving, free.”

Red Yellow Smiles Divergent Veronica Roth Amity

Book:Divergent

Source: Divergent

“I don't know why, but his reaction disappoints me.”

Disappointment Reaction

Book:Allegiant

Source: Allegiant

“Take away someone’s fear, or low intelligence, or dishonesty . . . and you take away their compassion. Take away someone’s aggression and you take away their motivation, or their ability to assert themselves. Take away their selfishness and you take away their sense of self-preservation.” ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant”

True

Book:Allegiant

Source: Allegiant

“Sadness and anger aren’t the only feelings that count as feelings”

True

Book:The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future – A Masterful Illustrated Sci-Fi Anthology for Teens about Friendship, Hope, and Technology

Source: The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future – A Masterful Illustrated Sci-Fi Anthology for Teens about Friendship, Hope, and Technology

“Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but i feel like when you believe something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can't help yourself.”

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Book:Allegiant

Source: Allegiant

“Obligation was dangerous because it muddled the mind.”

Mind Dangerous Danger Obligation Discernment Veronica Roth The End And Other Beginnings

Book:The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future – A Masterful Illustrated Sci-Fi Anthology for Teens about Friendship, Hope, and Technology

Source: The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future – A Masterful Illustrated Sci-Fi Anthology for Teens about Friendship, Hope, and Technology

“Soft hearts make the universe worth living in.”

Love Heart Girl Universe Cute Boy

Book:Carve the Mark

Source: Carve the Mark

“I may be in pain, but I am not weak.”

Pain Strong Strong Women Strong Female Characters Strong Heroine

Book:Carve the Mark

Source: Carve the Mark

“What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them.”

Pain Who You Are Chronic Pain

Author:Veronica Roth

“In that moment I’m able to accept the inevitability of how I feel, though not with joy. I need to talk to someone. I need to trust someone. And for whatever reason, I know, I know it’s her.”