Veronica Roth World Quotations

No factions? A world in which no one knows who they are or where they fit? I can't even fathom it. I imagine only chaos and isolation.

But now I know how large the world is... Well. I suppose I have grown to large out of my faction. As a consequence.

Fighting for survival in a shattered world... the truth is her only hope.

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

It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered.

Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human

Everyone has to blame something for the way the world is.

I started writing because I decided I was too old to play pretend in the backyard. Then I found that I could create those imaginary worlds on the page.

I look out the window again, taking slow, deep breaths into a body too tense to move. And as I stare out at the land, I think that this, if nothing else, is compelling evidence for my parents’ God, that our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel. -Tris Prior

We believe in bravery. We believe in taking action. We believe in freedom from fear and in acquiring the skills to force the bad out of our world so that the good can prosper and thrive. If you also believe in those things, we welcome you.

In 'Insurgent' we realise how large the world really is

Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.

That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel.

I used to go outside every day and invent these elaborate worlds and scenarios in my head, and when I grew too old for playing pretend, I started to write everything down instead.

I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it.

From one tyrant to another. That is the world we know, now

In some parts of the ancient world, the hawk symbolized the sun. Back when I got this, I figured if I always had the sun on me, I wouldn't be afraid of the dark