Veronica Roth Quotes

The trauma of the whole thing has been humbling, and for the first time, I'm a little bit wobbly.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.

When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.

I did not know that for the things that unhorse you, for the things that wreck you, for the things that toy with your internal tide - against those things, there is no conventional guard.

She wept with shame for her lack of will and with fear for a love she couldn't control.

I stand there, feeling broken and small, thousands of eyes trained on me.

It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

Somehow, in many of those near-miss instances, I've managed to fight through and continue. But in all these situations, even when they're apparently going well, I feel I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.

It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go; it was that he minded being afraid. It was as though he had been made with a great piece missing - one of May Belle's puzzles with this huge gap where somebody's eye should have been. Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

I needed real help in New York and I had no friends. I looked up at those buildings, I couldn't see the sky or nothing, and I said, 'Well, there ain't no mountain high enough,' and I just started - the words just fell out of my mouth, really.

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and deny our emotions - especially the ones that shake us at our very core, like hurt, jealousy, loneliness, shame, rage and grief.

For six years, from 1985 to 1991, I felt pretty weak and useless.

The most demeaning sin is to remain weak in the world. It not only destroys us, but also incites others to attack us with violence.

Because I am basically so insecure and anxious and afraid, I never, ever in my life learned to reach out for help, ever.

A lot of the characters I've played before are heroic or invincible in some ways and not tuned into fear and anxiety and pain.

Every day, I walk the streets with my head held high, but deep down inside, sometimes I'm like, 'I just hope I can get through the day.'

I don't know how to be hurt.

I had to grow a very thick skin very fast. I think that's where the GC came about.

I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!

I have had a couple of situations where I wasn't the strongest person in the world.

You find strength in your moments of weakness.