Veronica Roth Quotes

I don't really identify with America, I don't really feel like an American or part of the American experience, and I don't really feel like a member of the human race, to tell you the truth. I know I am, but I really don't. All the definitions are there, but I don't really feel a part of it. I think I have found a detached point of view, an ideal emotional detachment from the American experience and culture and the human experience and culture and human choices.

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

I belong nowhere and to no one.

I felt like, 'How do I fit in?' But then I never fit in. The whole time, I've never fit in.

I've never really fit in.

My motivation is, in part, a bit of angst that comes from feeling like I don't belong, that our generation doesn't belong.

I often feel like an outsider wherever I go, so I'm always attracted to stories about identity and the meaning of home.

I don't know if I'm ever considered a part of the community I'm in.

I've never felt at home in Kortedala, or in Gothenburg, so I always felt like I needed to go somewhere and find some kind of perspective on things.

I didn't have just one place where I could say, 'That's my home.'

there were times when I was more at home in front of millions of people than I was at home.

If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam’s circle.

I guess I always think of myself as more of the people. I always feel like a bit of an outsider.

People treating you differently, when you don't feel any different, is really alienating.

People who think of themselves as exiles, I find, can never really put their lives together, really.

To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.

I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke; I am the piecemeal part of you that you pretend doesn't exist, except it is all I am, all the time.

I didn't relate well to people my age. Maybe the truth was that I didn't relate well to people, period. Even my mother, who I was closer to than anyone else on the planet, was never in harmony with me, never on exactly the same page. Sometimes I wondered if I was seeing the same things through my eyes that the rest of the world was seeing through theirs. Maybe there was a glitch in my brain.

It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.

They were not friends. They didn't know each other. It struck Tom like a horrible truth, true for all time, true for the people he had known in the past and for those he would know in the future: each had stood and would stand before him, and he would know time and time again that he would never know them, and the worst was that there would always be the illusion, for a time, that he did know them, and that he and they were completely in harmony and alike. For an instant the wordless shock of his realization seemed more than he could bear.

Loneliness in a crowd of people was the worst kind of loneliness, but she couldn't help it.

My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television.

I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel alienated from it.

All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home...and every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like a stranger to me.

So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.