The End and Other Beginnings Quotes

“Everyone had a death song, no matter how young or healthy they were, and everyone had a life song, even when they were dying. Everyone was both dying and living at the same time.”
― Veronica Roth, The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future

“Some people might leave you... But it doesn't mean you're worth leaving. It doesn't mean that at all.”
― Veronica Roth, The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future

“It's okay to want to feel better.”
― Veronica Roth, The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future

“Obligation was dangerous because it muddled the mind.”
― Veronica Roth, The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future – A Masterful Illustrated Sci-Fi Anthology for Teens about Friendship, Hope, and Technology

“Art,” I said as we parted, “is both vulnerable and brave.”
― Veronica Roth, The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future – A Masterful Illustrated Sci-Fi Anthology for Teens about Friendship, Hope, and Technology

“You'll want everything. You'll ache for things you can't have, and will never have. Impossible things, and improbable things, and stupid things, and evil things - you'll want them all." Jove smiled a little, his cheek dimpling. "But you'll also get things. Things you want. And...they'll make your life full, and they'll make it so you can keep going, and..." He shrugged. "They'll keep you warm." Otho wanted so badly to be warm again. He touched Jove's cheek, turning the other boy's head toward his. He leaned in slowly, as if asking for permission, and Jove closed the gap, his lips pressing to Otho's.”
― Veronica Roth, The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future

“Inertia
I'm carried in a straight line troward you
A force I can't resist; don't want to resist
Carried straight toward you”
― Veronica Roth, The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future

“Sadness and anger aren’t the only feelings that count as feelings”
― Veronica Roth, The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future – A Masterful Illustrated Sci-Fi Anthology for Teens about Friendship, Hope, and Technology

“That nerve ball isn't you. It's just this thing that lives in your head, telling you lies. If you get rid of it... think of what you could do. Think of what you could be.”
― Veronica Roth, The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future

“Some questions about the world don’t need to be answered”
― Veronica Roth, The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future – A Masterful Illustrated Sci-Fi Anthology for Teens about Friendship, Hope, and Technology

“For someone who had just found out that he was about to die, he seemed pretty calm”
― Veronica Roth, The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future – A Masterful Illustrated Sci-Fi Anthology for Teens about Friendship, Hope, and Technology

“She knew it would feel terrible to remember, too, but sometimes good and terrible could coexist, right?”
― Veronica Roth, The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future – A Masterful Illustrated Sci-Fi Anthology for Teens about Friendship, Hope, and Technology

“Some people might leave you,” he said, for once ignoring a joke in favor of something real. “But it doesn’t mean you’re worth leaving. It doesn’t mean that at all.” I didn’t quite believe him. But I almost did.”
― Veronica Roth, The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future – A Masterful Illustrated Sci-Fi Anthology for Teens about Friendship, Hope, and Technology

“Inertia
I'm carried in a straight line toward you
A force I can't resist; don't want to resist
Carried straight toward you”
― Veronica Roth, The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future”
― Veronica Roth, The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future