Veronica Roth Quotes

The truth is that I feel totally helpless, or totally inconsolable, to be more honest. I’m not trying to hide it, but it’s something you’re not to worry about.

When it was all over, and I was left alone in my office, I put my face in my hands and wept. I could do nothing less.

I cry sometimes. I get very upset.

The heart overwhelmed by grief knows no rest.

My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.

Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief.

Sorrow makes us all children again.

Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.

Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.

If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.

Pearls mean tears.

I cry all the time.

Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

I think any time we lose people, it's a hard moment.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

I'm in a great rage now, as I understand how many lives we have lost.

It was the saddest day of my life.

I was a very sad little girl.

A loss feels like a loss.

Serious loss brings you into one of the world's silent fraternities.

I know what it's like to lose.

When tragedy strikes, feeling helpless is understandable.

Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.

Oh baby," he whispers. Steps back. Out of the doorway. His face ashen. He walks slowly back to the kitchen. Leans over the counter. Puts his head in his hands. His hair falls over his fingers. The bathroom door clicks shut. She stays there for a long time. He's pulling his hair out.