Four Quotes

“Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.”
― Veronica Roth, Four: A Divergent Story Collection

“One thing I know: For helping me forget how awful the world is, I prefer her to alcohol.”
― Veronica Roth, Four: A Divergent Story Collection

“I touch her cheek to slow the kiss down, holding her mouth on mine so I can feel every place where our lips touch and every place where they pull away. I savor the air we share in the second afterwards and the slip of her nose across mine. I think of something to say, but it is too intimate, so I swallow it. A moment later I decide I don't care.

"I wish we were alone," I say as I back out of the cell.

She smiles. "I almost always wish that.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“I never used to understand why people bothered to hold hands as they walked, but then he runs one of his fingertips down my palm, and I shiver and understand it completely”
― Veronica Roth

“I feel the urge, familiar now, to wrench myself from my body and speak directly into her mind. It is the same urge, I realize, that makes me want to kiss her every time I see her, because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating. Our fingers, loosely woven a moment ago, now clutch together, her palm tacky with moisture, mine rough in places where I have grabbed too many handles on too many moving trains. Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide-open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“Eyes open, then," I say, tapping the skin between my eyebrows. I don’t really need her eyes to be on mine, but I feel better when they are.”
― Veronica Roth, Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene

“I think that you are the liar!" I say, my voice quaking. "You tell me you love me, you trust me, you think I'm more perceptive than the avarge person. And the first second that belief in my perceptiveness, that trust, that love is put to the test, it all falls apart." I am crying now, nut I am not ashamed of the tears shining on my cheeks or the thickness of my voice. "So you must have lied when you told me all those things... you must have, because I can't believe your love really is that feeble."
I step closer to him, so that there are only inches between us, and none of the others can hear me.
"I am still the person who would have died rather than kill you," I say, remembering the attack simulation and the feel of his heartbeat under my hand. "I am exactly who you think I am.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.”
― Veronica Roth

“In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“I work my hardest and she still kicks the crap out of me.”
― Pittacus Lore, The Power of Six

“Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that "something" is a fake bathroom break.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“I respect you more than anyone. But right now I’m wondering what bothers you more, that I made a stupid decision or that I didn’t make your decision.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“That's the first time I've ever said those words out loud, and now I hear how strange they are. How many young men fear that there is a monster instead them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“I understand why she did it this way, face-first--it was because it made her feel like she was flying, like she was a bird.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“I don’t want to be just one thing. I want to be brave and selfless and intelligent and honest and kind.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“I am not who you thik I am,' I say.
'Who are you?'
'I am number Four.”
― Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four

“The wind is knocked out of me; and when I look up, I see Nine spitting blood out. He's grinning.
"Are you crazy?" I ask. "You're enjoying this?"
"I've been locked up for over a year. This is the best day of my life!”
― Pittacus Lore, The Power of Six

“Are you sure you want us to keep calling you 'Six'?"

"You can say it's short for something."

"For what? Sixty?”
― Pittacus Lore

“I love you," I say.

I said that once, before I went to Erudite headquarters, but he was asleep then. I don't know why I didn't say it when he could hear it. Maybe I was afraid to trust him with something so personal as my devotion. Or afraid that I did not know what it was to love someone. But now I think the scary thing was not saying it before it was too late. Not saying it before it was almost too late for me.”
― veronica roth

“It's happened many times before. Usually it results in an exceptional and gifted human. Some of the greatest figures in Earth's history were actually the product of humans and the Loric, including Buddha, Aristotle, Julius Ceasar, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein... Aprodite, Apollo, Hermes, and Zeus were all real, and had one Loric parent”
― Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four

“You know, the kind of person who gets this tattoo is probably the kind that should keep it very quiet," she says, looking at me from the corner of her eye. "Or else someone will start thinking they're Divergent.”
― Veronica Roth, Four: A Divergent Story Collection

“I have a scar - a faint gouge in my knee from when I fell down on the sidewalk as a child. It's always seemed stupid to me that none of the pain I've experienced has left a visible mark; sometimes, without a way to prove it to myself, I began to doubt that I had lived through it at all, with the memories becoming hazy over time. I want to have some kind of reminder that while wounds heal, they don't disappear forever - I carry them everywhere, always, and that is the way of things, the way of scars.”
― Veronica Roth, Four: A Divergent Story Collection

“At the point I was aware my partner was probably cheating, it took four years to obtain the proof.”
― Steven Magee

“Because you're from Abnegation,' he says, 'and it's when your acting selflessly that you are at your bravest.”
― Veronica Roth

“People tend to overestimate my character,' I say quietly, 'They think because I'm small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can't possibly be cruel. But they're wrong.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent