Veronica Roth Quotes

Everyone just screams and screams and screams. I have accepted it as real now, but it still feels surreal.

This howling mouth, this head which rolls back and tries to escape.

When I close my eyes, I still see things no one should ever experience: a bright red light, the black cloud soon after, people running in every direction trying desperately to escape - I remember it all.

My adult life is filled with the things horror movies are made of.

In fear I hurried this way and that. I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, the one as hateful as the other.

I shudder at the image they would piece together.

I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.

Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear.

I shudder when relating it.

A nightmare is two bassists on stage.

Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.

When they first grabbed us, yeah, it terrified, but they calmed me down.

Panic is a horrible thing.

I had dreams of being chased by a creature down an alleyway on a regular basis. I'd have dreams of being ripped apart.

Sure, it was nice now, but eventually there would be running and screaming and blood on the floor.

She screamed, the high scream that was neither human nor animal but something terrible in between, the sort of sound that you never forget no matter how many beautiful things you hear afterward.

I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement.

This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.

To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else.

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending.

This is a horrific day in Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with those who have been injured.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.