39 Inspiring Veronica Roth Quotes
Last Updated on 24/03/2025
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Discover 39 inspiring Veronica Roth quotes from her books that will motivate you to live a life meaningful while staying true to yourself. She is an American author best known for her Divergent series, a dystopian trilogy that gained immense popularity, particularly among young adult readers.
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Veronica Roth was born on August 19, 1988, in New York City, USA. She has written several books, including novels, short story collections, and novellas, primarily in the science fiction and fantasy genres. She wrote Divergent while she was a college student at Northwestern University. Here’s a breakdown:
- The Divergent Trilogy: Divergent (2011), Insurgent (2012), Allegiant (2013)
- Divergent Short Stories (Four Series): Four: A Divergent Collection (2014)
- Standalone Novels: Carve the Mark (2017), The Fates Divide (2018), Chosen Ones (2020)
- Short Story Collections: Arch-Conspirator (2023), The Sprawl (2024)
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39 Inspiring Veronica Roth Quotes
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Quotes from Divergent
“One choice can transform you.”
“People I have discovered are layers of secrets. You think you know them, you think you understand them. But their motives are always hidden and buried down deep in their hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.”
“She is well-practiced in the art of losing herself. I can’t say the same of myself.”
“I am selfish. I am brave.”
“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
“Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up.”
“I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me—they, and the love and loyalty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.”
“Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.”
“A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.”
“I don’t want to be just one thing. I can’t be. I want to be brave, and I want to be selfless, intelligent, honest, and kind. Well, I’m still working on the kind.”
“Becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible. It’s learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
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Quotes from Insurgent
“A life worth having is a life worth taking risks for.”
“You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.”
“Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.”
“Knowledge is power. Power to do evil or power to do good.”
“We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.”
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Quotes from Allegiant
“Take a person’s memories, and you change who they are.”
“Forgiveness is just the continual pushing aside of bitter memories, until time dulls the hurt and the anger, and the wrong is forgotten.”
“Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged.”
“To live is to be vulnerable.”
“The person you became with her is worth being.”
“I know, without being told, that’s what love does, when it’s right—it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be. This is right.”
“I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no choice in the matter afterward. And maybe that’s true of beginnings, but it’s not true of this, now. I fell in love with him. But I don’t just stay with him by default as if there’s no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.”
“Life damages us, everyone. We can’t escape that damage. But we can be mended. We mend each other.”
“No matter how smart, people usually see what they’re already looking for.”
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Four: A Divergent Collection Quotes:
“But then I stopped allowing myself to dream because it was more painful to long for things and never get them than to deal with whatever was in front of me.”
“I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren’t all that different.”
“I’d rather be dead than empty, like the factionless.”
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Carve the Mark
“No one else can decide what your life is worth.”
“You want to know what happiness is? Happiness is the feeling that power gives you.”
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The Fates Divide
“We can’t choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.”
“Power is its own kind of corrupting influence.”
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Chosen Ones Quotes
“There is no single moment when you become something different. The change happens before you realize it, and then you are it.”
“Sometimes the best revenge is to show them that your life is better without them.”
“The worst memories stick with us, while the nice ones always seem to slip through our fingers.”
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Arch-Conspirator
“History is written by those who refuse to be forgotten.”
“To be free is to choose your own story, even if no one else understands it.”
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The Sprawl
“Even in darkness, there are whispers of hope.”
“We are not only made by our choices but by the ones we refuse to make.”
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