Veronica Roth Life Quotations

Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life

Because life is not fair, Albert. And the world is conspiring against you.

Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community.

All I want is to become someone new. In this case, Tobias Johnson, son of Evelyn Johnson. Tobias Johnson may have lived a dull and empty life, but he is at least a whole person, not this fragment of a person that I am, too damaged by pain to become anything useful.

I have done bad things. I can't take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.

What thought or message would you put in a fortune cookie? "Stop reading this. Eat the cookie and live your life.

I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.

I also don't believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much like an Erudite afterlife to me, all accuracy and no feeling.

To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community. My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.

No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.