The Fates Divide Quotes

“A soft heart was a gift, whether given easily or with great reluctance. I would never take it for granted again.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“Death is not the only punishment you can give a person. You can also give them nightmares.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“Sometimes she still said things that wounded me. And not because they were lies.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“It was ridiculous.
But so was much of the galaxy.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“Life is full of pain', I had told Akos, trying to draw him back from depression. 'Your capacity for bearing it is greater than you believe.' And I had been right.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“What does Mother always say? Those who go looking for pain...'
'Find it every time,' I replied, completing the phrase.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“Why do you have this expectation that life will make concessions for you?' She scowled. 'We are not promised ease, comfort, or fairness. Only pain and death.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“Suffer the fate, for all else is delusion.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“I am a Shotet. I am sharp as a blade and just as strong, I see all of the galaxy and it is all mine.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“There's poetry in it, in that poetry can be raw, and cruel, and strange, like this.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“It wasn't pretending I wouldn't get knocked down that protected me, but the knowledge that I would get back up as many times as I had to.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“Sitting at his kitchen table--the kitchen table where he had spread his homework as a kid to work before dinner, where he had climbed up to dust the burnstones with red hushflower powder, where he had learned to chop and slice and crush ingredients for the painkiller--was Cyra.
Her thick, wavy hair piled on one side of her head, the other glinting silver.
Her arm wrapped in armor.
Her eyes dark as space.
“Hello,” she said to him in Thuvhesit.
“Hello,” he replied in Shotet.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“They were both people who carried every scrap of everything around, but maybe they could help each other set things down, piece by piece.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“I tipped my chin up and kissed him, gently. He responded by wrapping an arm across my back and lifting me into him, strong and warm and certain.
It took a while for us to break apart.
“We pass through the currentstream today,” I said. “Will you come with me?”
“In case you hadn’t noticed,” he said, “I’ll pretty much go with you anywhere.”
He tapped my nose with a gray-stained finger, leaving a mark that even I could see out of the corner of my eye.
“Did you just stain my nose right before I have to go out in public?”
He grinned, and nodded.
“I hate you,” I said.
“And I love you,” he replied.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“A soft heart was a gift, whether given easily or with great reluctance.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“So we were tangled in a web together, cause and effect and choice and fate all intermingling.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“Space was not a finite container, but that didn't mean it was empty. Asteroids, stars, planets, the current stream; space debris, ships, fragmented moons, undiscovered worlds; this was a place of endless possibility and unfathomable freedom. It was not nothing, it was everything.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“I paused. I was tempted to call Akos a friend, but it seemed too simple for what he had been to me, too small a word.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“We see--
Them.
Older. The silverskin shining on one side of her head. His gray eyes crinkled at the corners as he looks at her.
They stand in a crowd beneath a mammoth ship. It towers, in patchwork metals, over the other ships on the loading bay. A new sojourn ship.
He takes her hand. They walk toward the ship together.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“When the will to live failed, the body still fought.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“Can I offer you a bracing slap on the back? A gruff reassurance, maybe?' 'Do you have candy? I would take candy,”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“What does it matter what the 'before' is, when you're controlling the 'after'?”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“They were not just objects, but escapes when pain made it hard for me to stay in my own body. My comforts in despair.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“We didn’t always have a planet,” she said. “The currentstream was home, more than a piece of rock. Or our ship. But as a people, we are maybe more closely tied than most to our identity, because we have always had to struggle against disappearing completely. We fight for you, for your belonging, because we fight for our existence. We will surrender the one only when we surrender the other.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“Stand up straight. Speak clearly. Don’t be afraid to think about your answer—the pause feels longer to you than it does to them.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“Akos watched her carefully as she spoke, as she pulled him closer and touched her forehead to his, so they could still look at each other, breathing the same air.
“What I did,” he said, “cut out a piece of me.”
“It’s all right,” she said. “I’m all hacked up and stitched back together, too.”
She pulled away.
“For now,” she said, “just be my friend again, okay? And we can talk about the whole ‘I’m still in love with you, what the hell do we do about it’ question later.”
Akos smiled.
“Show me your house,” she said. “Are there embarrassing pictures of you? On the journey, your sister told me you were very particular about your socks.”
And so Akos took her upstairs, his fingers laced with hers, and opened all his drawers, letting himself be thoroughly mocked.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“You’ve only ever cared about yourself, for your entire life. So what’s gotten into you? Brain parasite?”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“He put his hands on hers. The shadows looked like smoke, in the air, but they pulled back into Cyra’s body like dozens of strings yanked at once.
Cyra’s odd smile was gone, and she was staring at their joined hands.
“What will happen when you let go?” she said quietly.
“You’ll be just fine,” he said. “You’ll learn to control it. You can do that now, remember?”
She let out an airy laugh.
“I can hang on as long as you like,” he said.
Her eyes hardened. When she spoke, it was with gritted teeth. “Let go.”
Akos couldn’t help but think back to something he’d read in one of the books Cyra had put in his room on the sojourn ship. He’d had to read it through a translator, because it was written in Shotet, and it had been called Tenets of Shotet Culture and Belief.
It said: The most marked characteristic of the Shotet people is directly translated as “armored,” but outsiders might call it “mettle.” It refers not to courageous acts in difficult situations--though the Shotet certainly hold valor in high regard--but to an inherent quality that cannot be learned or imitated; it is in the blood as surely as their revelatory language. Mettle is bearing up again and again under assaults. It is perseverance, acceptance of risk, and the unwillingness to surrender.
That paragraph had never made more sense to him than it did right now.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“Lazmet smiled. “And you have more than one mark on your arm. How encouraging, to realize that you are not a complete idiot. Congratulations, Akos Noavek. You are not boring.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“You don’t need to dedicate so much time to painkillers,” I said. “I’m managing just fine with the ones I have.”
“I enjoy making them,” he said. “It’s not all about you, you know.”
“I love it when you talk sweet to me.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide