Veronica Roth Quotes

As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.

When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

Heroism is a matter of choice.

I could have had Spanish nationality, and I didn't take it.

I'm not Dauntless - I'm Divergent. I am whatever I choose to be.

For every person who might reject you if you live your truth, there are ten others who will embrace you and welcome you home.

Few people who are born into Abnegation choose to leave it. When they do, we remember.

I wasn't good enough for abnegation," I say, "and I wanted to be free. So I chose Dauntless." "Why weren't you good enough?" "Because I was selfish." I say. "You were selfish? You aren't anymore?" "Of course I am. My mother said that everyone is selfish," I say, "but I became less selfish in Dauntless. I discovered there were people I would fight for. Die for, even.

It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.

You know what Abnegation used to say about pride?' 'Something unfavorable,I assume.' I laugh.' Obviously. They said it blinds people to the truth of what they are.

Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you ever thought we might like you because you're different?

It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

Every act is an act of self definition.

Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it. Never casual, the choice of place is the choice of something you crave.

It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.

Locale is both a geographic term and the inner sense of being.

Out of the temptation of Hate, and burned by the fire of Despair, triumphant over Doubt, and steeled by Sacrifice against Humiliation, . . . He bent to all the gibes and prejudices, to all hatred and discrimination with that rare courtesy which is the armor of pure souls. . . . he simply worked, inspiring the young, rebuking the old, helping the weak, guiding the strong.

Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple.

But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will.

It's a human instinct to be known.

In those places of doubt and even darkness I've realized that who I am has nothing to do with wins or losses, applause, or negative criticism. It has to do with whose I am.

You have to be able to face losing some things you might want in order to be free to do the right thing.

You have to stand for something bigger than yourself.

Fear wins or Freedom wins, and I choose Freedom.