Veronica Roth Quotes

Not to get too deep on shaving my mustache, but it was kind of symbolic of, 'This is a moment of liberation, a chance to reinvent yourself.' That's kind of what I did.

I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.

I used to be somebody. Now I’m somebody else.

i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.

I have to reinvent myself.

He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been working really hard trying to come up with something.

I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.

I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.

It's very exciting to feel like a different woman with a new identity.

I learned a lot about self-reinvention. How you can be born Milton Sternberg in the Bronx and then become Monroe Stahr in Hollywood.

I've changed my music from time to time so I'm hoping that I can completely change my life from time to time, too. Like live in another land, in another place, and just get completely soaked up in another way of being. Could be in this country or another country, somewhere were you can be reborn a number of times not just creatively, but personally as well. I guess I want to go through life as more than one person.

I always think that in a big city, anything is possible, including reinventing yourself.

I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then

Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself.

Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone, to shake off the shackles that remind you who you are, who others think you are.

Whoever I had become had to die.

I used to be someone.

Each day is an occasion to reinvent ourselves

You have to have the ability to remake yourself. Whatever that is. Every several years... Every five to 10 years.

You can't be born again, but you can change.

I'm shedding off the old me and I'm reborn as the new me - it's great!

I think maybe we die every day. Maybe we're born new each dawn, a little changed, a little further on our own road. When enough days stand between you and the person you were, you're strangers. Maybe that's what growing up is. Maybe I have grown up.

You have to reinvent yourself.

Sometimes I have these fantasies of just moving to a foreign country and coming back with a full head of hair. Or not even come back! Make a new life there with hair... Change my name, just see what happens.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.