Veronica Roth Quotes

Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.

Dave couldn't remember the last time a grownup had apologized to him.

Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words "Thank you for your honesty" at different volumes and pitches, and my anger begins to dissolve.

I can tell you my feelings were hurt.

One day you're gonna ask that to the wrong girl who is really struggling and it's gonna be hurtful to them. And I hate it.

The ones that hurt the most always say the least.

But love was strange. It distorted your perspective and played havoc with your logic.

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

Talking about performance is such a strange thing because it's so immaterial. We are talking about soft matter. We are talking about something that is invisible. You can't see it. You can't touch it. You just can feel it.

It hurts that, you know, the media's made me into sort of this like punching bag or cartoon character-they think that I don't have any feelings, and, you know, it hurts like anyone else.

Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me

Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.

I think when you say to someone You are fool not to believe in evolution or a fool to believe the universe is 6000 years old. I think that gets translated as You are a fool to think that your daughter who died in a car accident is really in heaven with god.

It's the emotional punches that you can't see that are just overwhelmingly devastating to your heart - your moral fiber.

I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.

The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render it morbidly sensitive to the most trifling collision.

And what about you-the rest of you-did you notice the scars you left behind? No. Probably not. Because most of them can't be seen with the naked eye.

As much as I do love real-life stories they can often make you hurt in a way I'd rather not hurt. . . . For some reason, it's always the pain that gets you.

Strange people like chefs, musicians, and politicians affect me.

One day my dad said, "If you guys ever stop singing, I'll drop you like a hot potato." That's what he said. It hurt me. You don't say that to children and I never forgot it.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

Once you've said it, you can't put it back. So choose your words carefully in heated moments in personal relationships. Anything you say, people have feelings. If you're thinking something, you keep thinking it and it just sort of slides out, it's gonna happen.

If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.

You can only really really hurt the ones that you really really love.

Sometimes people say terrible things when they're scared. They don't mean to, but they can't help it. They lash out because if they can see that their words hurt someone else, it makes them feel as if they aren't completely powerless.