Tahoe Roth Quotes

To my lady. May she have success in all her endeavors, health and friendships, and may I not take my own last breath until she takes hers. May she always know I love her. ~ Katy Evans

You know my every side, you've seen me in every way, and you let me see you in the way you let no man see you. And somehow we still crave to be with each other. Not because I'm broken and I make you feel good about yourself… because I'm not broken with you. You get me and I get you. I accept you, I cherish you. I fucking revere you. Just as you are. I want no other woman in my life and I want you to have no man but me. So I love you. ~ Katy Evans

Every year, on the Emperor's birthday, he makes a resolution to begin a new life and not get into debt. And so he gets drunk. And comes home late at night, stands in the kitchen with drawn sword, and commands an entire regiment. The pots are platoons, the teacups are units, the plates are companies. Simon Demant is a colonel, a colonel in the service of Franz Joseph I. ~ Joseph Roth

I look up at Eric,sniffing "I tried to...and..."I shake my head.
"You tired to what?" asks Eric
"Kiss me," says Tobias. "And I rejected her,and she went running off like a five-year-old. there's really nothing to blame her for but stupidity. ~ Veronica Roth

I feel braver when I'm around you, you know. Like I could actually fit in here, the same way you do. ~ Veronica Roth

I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature. ~ Philip Roth

Better for real things to be uncontrollable, better for one's life to be undecipherable and intellectually impenetrable than to attempt to make casual sense of what is unknown with a fantasy that is mad. Better, I thought, that the events of these past three days should remain incomprehensible to me forever than to posit, as I had just been doing, a conspiracy of foreign intelligence agents who are determined to control my mind. We've all heard that one before. ~ Philip Roth

That internal war doesn't seem like a product of genetic damage - it seems completely, purely human. ~ Veronica Roth

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to sail right up along side it. ~ David Lee Roth

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. ~ Veronica Roth

A call for revolution wrapped in the clothing of rationality. ~ Veronica Roth

Let's go to the cafeteria," Will says, "and eat cake. ~ Veronica Roth

I want her, in a way I haven't felt before, not just some kind of mindless physical drive but a real, specific desire. Not for someone, just for her. ~ Veronica Roth

Chocolate, I am sure, is the concrete manifestation of love. ~ Geneen Roth

Nothing that befalls anyone is too senseless to have happened. ~ Philip Roth

I get into bed and pretend to be asleep. I don't need any of them, not if they're going to react this way when I do well. If I can make it through initiation, I will be Dauntless, and I won't have to see them anymore.
I don't need them - but do I want them? Every tattoo I got with them is a mark of their friendship, and almost every time I have laughed in this dark place was because of them. I don't want to lose them. But I feel like I have already.
After at least a half hour of racing thoughts, I roll onto my back and open my eyes. The dormitory is dark now - everyone has gone to bed. Probably exhausted from resenting me so much, I think with a wry smile. ~ Veronica Roth

Suddenly I'm aware of my own heartbeat. This is what my father said would happen. He told me that they would ask me if I was aware during the simulation, and he told me what to say when they did. "No," I say. "If I was, do you think I would have chewed through my lip?" Tori studies me ~ Veronica Roth

there to Baltimore," he says, and Lucy keeps her helicopter in Norwood, just outside of Boston, where she has her own hangar. "I see. That's why she's in a flight suit. She's taking you," and I think about the timing of her showing up as I emerged from the trailer. Benton must have let her know about Briggs's death hours ago. "When I'm done here I'll come meet you," I promise as we approach a black Tahoe with dark-tinted windows and government plates. ~ Patricia Cornwell

The next morning, I am silly and light. Every time I push the smile from my face, it fights its way back. Eventually I stop suppressing it. ~ Veronica Roth

People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie. ~ Eli Roth

An indescribable sadness emanated from the white splendour of the staircase and balustrade; the blood-red, now almost black splendour of the carpets. The huge palms in their huge pots looked like they had recently arrived from the cemetery. Their dark green leaves also looked blackish, like wizened, perished weapons from olden days. ~ Joseph Roth

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding? ~ Philip Roth

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound. ~ David Lee Roth

What?" he said. "You're giving me a weird look."
"Nothing," I said. "You just…look nice."
It was a silly thing to say. He was dusty, sweaty, and smeared with my blood. His hair and clothes were mussed. Nice wasn't exactly the word for it, but the other ones I thought of were too much, too soon.
Still, he smiled as if he understood. "You do, too."
"I look filthy," I said. "But thank you for lying about it. ~ Veronica Roth

I jump over a puddle of
well, I don't want to know what it is
and emerge into a kind of courtyard. ~ Veronica Roth

The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. ~ Philip Roth

There's something every woman wants, and that's a man to blame. ~ Philip Roth

I have a bad time between jobs because I'm always convinced I'll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment. ~ Tim Roth

But they don't deserve to be winning!"
"And who does in this world, Roland? Only the gifted and the beautiful and the brave? What about the rest of us, Champ? What about the wretched, for example? What about the weak and the lowly and the desperate and the fearful and the deprived, to name but a few who come to mind? What about losers? What about failures? What about the ordinary fucking outcasts of this world - who happen to comprise ninety percent of the human race! Don't they have dreams, Agni? Don't they have hopes? Just who told you clean-cut bastards own the world anyway? Who put you clean-cut bastards in charge, that's what I'd like to know! Oh, let me tell you something. All-American Adonis : you fair-haired sons of bitches have had your day. It's all over, Agni. We're not playing according to your clean-cut rules anymore - we're playing according to our own! The Revolution has begun! Henceforth the Mundys are the master race! Long live Glorious Mundy! ~ Philip Roth

I am not Tobias Eaton, not anymore, never again. I am Dauntless. ~ Veronica Roth

The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them. ~ Veronica Roth

Under the sad end-of-days spell of the smoky dusk and the waning year, of the moon and its ostentatious superiority to the trashy, petty claptrap of his sublunar existence, why does he even hesitate? The Kamizakis are your enemies whether you do or not, so you might as well do it. Yes, yes, if you can still do something, you must do it - that is the golden rule of sublunar existence, whether you are a worm cut in two or a man with a prostate like a billiard ball. If you can still do something, then you must do it! Anything living can figure that out. ~ Philip Roth

If the Dauntless knew about this, everyone would be getting in line to learn how to drive it," he says. "Including me."
"No, they would be strapping themselves to the wings." Christina pokes his arm. "Don't you know your own faction? ~ Veronica Roth

Don't worry about me handling the pain," I say. "I've had a lot of practice. ~ Veronica Roth

What might be happening in human beings who experience near death is that they are getting cold, but before they get so cold that they would die, they're actually diminishing their oxygen consumption in a way that is unknown. And that extends their survival limits, so they can appear dead but actually not be dead. ~ Mark Roth

I settle into their pace. The uniform pounding of feet in my ears and the homogeneity of the people around me makes me believe that I could choose this. I could be subsumed into Abnegation's hive mind, projecting always outward. ~ Veronica Roth

The legend engraved on the face of the Jewish nickel– on the body of every Jewish child!– not IN GOD WE TRUST, but SOMEDAY YOU'LL BE A PARENT AND YOU'LL KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE. ~ Philip Roth

Possession and exorcism is something that's in every religion and every culture. It's a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go? ~ Eli Roth

Ride the energy of your own unique spirit. ~ Gabrielle Roth

Some disaster movies look like you're watching someone else play video games. They're fun but it's not real. ~ Eli Roth

No wonder you left."
Yeah," i say, rolling my eyes. " It was just because of the food. ~ Veronica Roth

How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you'd loved since you were a boy? ~ Philip Roth

lift, not even for an instant, as she runs a comb through my ~ Veronica Roth

But I killed a man just like my mother did. David says it's okay because I didn't mean to, and because he was about to kill that little kid. But I'm pretty sure my mom didn't mean to kill my dad, either, so what difference does that make, meaning or not meaning to do something? Accident or on purpose, the result is the same, and that's one fewer life than there should be in the world. ~ Veronica Roth

CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE ~ Veronica Roth

Peace is restrained; this is free. ~ Veronica Roth