Veronica Roth Quotes

But I miss the woman I was, even as I learn to accept the new creature I’ve become.

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.

If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.

I just decided I wanted to become someone else... So I became someone else.

I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.

I am not who I was, but I know who I am.

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

You do need to maintain some of yourself and know who you are, but that doesn't mean you can't evolve.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today.

I'm on the path to being someone I'm equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self.

One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.

When I was about 17 or 18, I finally admitted to myself that I wasn't going to change. I didn't know what the consequences would be, but I had the definite feeling that it was going to wreck my Disney career.

All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by themselves.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was.

Gaga and Stefani are my nicknames. I guess when people meet me for the first time and call me Stefani, it bothers me. Because it's something that's reserved for only the people who are closest to me. It's not because I don't like my given name; it's that I became somebody else. I became somebody else for a reason, you know. This is part of what my message is - you can become whoever you want to be, to escape your past.

There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is.

As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.

The truth was, Azoth hated Azoth. Azoth was a coward, passive, weak, afraid, disloyal. Azoth had hesitated. Master Blint didn’t know it, but the poisons on the needle had killed Azoth. He was Kylar now, and Kylar would be everything Azoth hadn’t dared to be.