Veronica Roth Quotes

I can almost see what Gabriel meant when he asked, 'What has the free world got that you can’t get here?' Almost. Freedom, Gabriel. That’s what you can’t get here.

I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.

What we know to be true is that comfort isn't always freedom. People confuse the two.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me.

It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

I don't want to live like a prisoner.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

I don't want to be limited or ghettoized in any way.

We don't really like rules. We think, in some way, they are an infringement of liberty.

I hold a jail more roomy ... than would be the whole world if I were to submit to repression.

300 was the biggest hurdle. They tried to hold us against our will.

I'm too old to be forced.

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

You can't be a free spirit in a place that feels like it was built on lockdown.

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

A caged canary is safe but not free.

Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door.

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.

Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.

Only the man who has known freedom Can define his prison.