Veronica Roth Quotes

I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.

It's not important what other people call you. If you yourself know you're a fake, that's tougher to live with.

I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.

I have a problem with being a hero, but that's another problem.

Everytime people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.

But it's no use now," thought poor Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why, there's ahrdly enough of me left to make one respectable person!

I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.

My whole life, I've felt like I didn't quite measure up.

The reality is I'm not this person with this driving 'get it done' attitude.

Like anybody, you have moments when you question yourself and you're insecure.

Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.

You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.

It's tough being me.

I had a series of mini-breakdowns where the public persona - this thing, this face, this person who writes this music... I would walk past that person in the mirror or listen to that person playing guitar and I didn't know who they were.

No matter how I look, the freak inside me leaks out.

I used to think of myself in terms of who I'd be if I didn't have this pesky old disability.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

I'll be me, but I don't like it.

I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.

I'm not that rebellious. There's a part of me that wishes I was that.

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

I don't know what to do if I am not inspiring some sort of false fascination.