Veronica Roth Quotes

Unless you're a serial killer, you're worried about being liked by somebody.

Believe it or not, perhaps I don't show it much, or well, but I think I like people.

The only way for something human to feel human is to convince others that it is.

The more I dressed up, the more people reacted... the more I wanted to do it.

I'm not really concerned about being liked on stage - I'm a bit more concerned about it off stage.

To see yourself, and for others to see you, is a form of validation. I'm interested in that very mysterious and mystical way we relate to each other in the world.

I guess when you see somebody in the hallway or on the field or something, it's nice to know that they are a real person.

Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.

I've been awkward forever. I have really low expectations for myself. When I do perform to some sort of social standard, I leave feeling really comfortable. I'm either so awkward that I look retarded or I'm so awkward that everyone else feels retarded.

Only other people can make you feel real.

I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

loneliness has its own needs!

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

Love or perish" we are told and we tell ourselves. The phrase is true enough so long as we do not interpret it as "Mingle or be a failure.

We say, 'Shall we meet for a drink?', as though drinking were the main end of the appointment, and the matter of company only incidental, we are so shy about admitting our need for one another.[...]We say, 'Would you like to come for some coffee?', as though it were less frightening to acknowledge that we are heavily dependent on mildly stimulating drinks, than to acknowledge that we are at all dependent on the companionship of other people.

People are always nice, so I can't complain. My name used to be SNL! More and more, people call me by my name.

I don't say I'm not magnetic to try and sound self-deprecating. I'm just not. Though I actually love people. I would like to meet more people. I know no one.

Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.

Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.

I love the people and I actually think they like me a lot.

I just think if you have an emotion and you let that go that moment might pass. If you don't open the door for the person to come in, it would have just been like, "Nice to meet you - goodbye."

I'm everybody's friend, unless they don't like me. And then, I just totally can't understand that. I actually can't. I get really hurt if someone doesn't like me. It's weird.

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it.

I really never thought people would think that I was funny, I thought (my friends) thought I was funny because I was their friend, but other people would just think I was an asshole. I was at least partly right.