Veronica Roth Quotes

If you live your life as a hostage to everybody else's decision, you either have to live a very narrow life, or you have to spend a lot of time in pain.

I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.

You need to be your own individual.

I think I'm a living embodiment of, 'Don't try to push me around or squash me,' whether its how I talk to a record label or in my relationships.

I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that's the severest test, not death.

The truth is that I am a very independent person and I've always been. That probably damaged some of my relationships with men.

I am definitely an individual.

I've never felt the need to be defined by a man.

I'm so drastically independent; I don't tend to flourish in relationships.

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

I am my parents' daughter, and I always want to be. But I first wanted to make sure that I was standing on my own two feet.

I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.

I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.

There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.

Unfortunately, there are mental invalids of every age who exist on other people's terms. It's lazy for older persons to let others make up their minds for them. People have to overcome that.

People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

I'm my own person. You can't generalise about people.

Everybody is their own person.

I thought of myself as an individual ever since I was little.

I am not a 'yes' person. No matter who you are married to, you still need to lead your life.

My father said, 'How many days can I promote your film? You need to get your own recognition and your own identity. I can't be there always. So do it yourself.' So now I work on promotion, and he steps in to help just before the release.

I always thought I needed the support of someone in a long-term relationship to make me whole.

I value my independence a lot, and the thought of having to lose that due to age or any other reason terrifies me.

I have never spoken for anyone but myself.