Veronica Roth quotes
Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them. 
Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you. 
Change, like healing, takes time. 
Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil. 
Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now. 
No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens. 
Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like. 
Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it. 
The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them. Veronica Roth Short quotes ⇑
Short Quotes
A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy. 
All Veronica Roth quotes ⇑
Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.
We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
The person you became with her is worth being.
You don't believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they're true.
There is power in self-sacrifice.
Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other
Who cares about pretty? I'm going for noticeable.
And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her.
I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind.
I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
You chose us. Now we have to choose you.
I do know who you are. I just needed to be reminded.
She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.
"We could visit him," suggests Will. "But what would we say? 'I didn't know you that well, but I'm sorry you got stabbed in the eye'?
"Be careful, though." "Aren't I always?" "No, I think the word for how you usually are is 'reckless."
We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
"It's what you deserve to hear," I say firmly, my eyes going cloudy with tears. "That you're whole, that you're worth loving, that you're the best person I've ever known."
"I love you" I say. "I love you, too" he says. "I'll see you soon."
I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
"Caleb," I say, "I love you." His eyes gleam with tear as he says, "I love you, too, Beatrice.