Dystopian Author Quotes

Veronica Roth The truth is… you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don’t love […]

Veronica Roth Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.

Veronica Roth Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you, I say. “Controlling you is.”

Veronica Roth That is death – shifting from is” to “was.”

Veronica Roth Human reason can excuse any evil.

Veronica Roth Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

Veronica Roth I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there’s nothing left to protect me against pain. […]

Veronica Roth I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.

Veronica Roth I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.