Veronica Roth Quotes

First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.

When you've got your man down, rub him out.

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

Japan is a bully nation that takes what it wants and threatens any who oppose it.

Boys, I've just reminded Hubert that I've got his balls in my pocket.

Please remain. You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.

Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

If a guy can bully you, he will bully you.

If they're acting like a dog, sometimes you're forced to treat people like dogs.

Can't we kidnap Old Jethro, force him to help us, then vanquish him and the healer?" Bran choked on his drink.

I grasp reality, but sometimes I like to choke it into submission.

If you want to please me very much, you will fall down when I shoot you," -Oates The White Darkness

Grab whom you must. Do what you want.

Bones smiled. “Oh, grand. Going to make me beat the truth out of you? My favorite way to work.

But once I'd come up with it, I realized it really was the perfect plan. Instead of waiting for Maria to come to me, I was simply going to go to her and, well... Send her back to where she came. Or reduce her to a mound of quivering gelatinous goo. Whichever came first.

I don’t like being threatened, lied to, or manipulated. You’d do well to remember that. (Simone) Or what? You’re going to snivel at me? (Xypher)

We'd better work hard on getting rid of that must - Other people must do what I want them to do!" It's what makes people hostile, nasty, mean and combative, and it leads to feuds, wars and genocide. We'd better do something about that.

I've never had a good line. Well, maybe 'I must break you'.

You people are all insane. How I ended up with you, I'll never know." Breeze laughed. "Now, that's a lie, Cett. You know exactly how you ended up joining with us. We threatened to kill you if you didn't!

You think my first instinct is to protect you. Because you're small, or a girl, or a Stiff. But you're wrong." He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife? My skin tingles at the point of contact, like he's transmitting electricity through his skin. "My first instinct is to push you until you break, just to see how hard I have to press." he says, his fingers squeezing at the word break. My body tenses at the edge in his voice, so I am coiled as tight as a spring, and I forget to breathe.

Wait until next time," he warned. "I'll do things that'll make you lose control within seconds.

I never promise a woman anything nor let her know what I'm going to give her. That's the only way to manage them. Always keep them guessing. If you cant think of any other way to surprise them, give them a bust in the jaw.

Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying.... Sensual bullying of course is fairly easily detected. What is more dangerous is ideal bullying. Bullying people into what is ideally good for them.

Next out of the hall came the sisters and their husbands. Before I could say anything, the captain had clamped his hand over my mouth and was lifting me off my feet as I kicked. Cornwall made as to draw his dagger, but Regan pulled him away. "You've just won a kingdom, my duke, killing vermin is a servant's task. Leave the bitter fool stew in his own bile." She wanted me. It was clear.