535 quotes found
Author · American · 1988
American author (born 1988)
“I know what it is to become something you hate, I know how it hurts. But life is full of hurt. And your capacity for baring it is much greater than you believe."pg 287”
“What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them.pg 459”
“I may be in pain, but I am not weak.”
“Moths," repeats Will. "You're afraid of moths?" "Not just a cloud of moths," she says, "like...a swarm of them. Everywhere. All those wings and legs and..." She shudders and shakes her head."Terrif...”
“Can you be a girl for a few seconds?""I'm always a girl" I frown."You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girl"I twirl my hair around my finger. "Kay.”
“Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into place. Peter freezes with his lips parted, the yawn dead in his mouth. "Wake. Up," Four snaps. "You...”
“What is it with you today? says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are stillswollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.Oh, you know, I say. Sun shining. Bir...”
“We could visit him," suggests Will. "But what would we say? 'I didn't know you that well, but I'm sorry you got stabbed in the eye'?”
“I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.”
“Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives.”
“I don't want to die anymore. I am up to the challenge of bearing the guilt and the grief up to facing the difficulties that life has put in my path. Some days are harder than others, but I am ready...”
“Fear, she says, is more powerful than pain.”
“I wish I could tell him that were going through the same thing. I wish I could speak to him like I want to instead of like Im supposed to. But the idea of admitting that I need help is too much to ...”
“What do you think they're going to do to us when they find us guilty?" she says after a few minutes of silence have passed."Honestly?""Does now seem like the time for honesty?"I look at her from th...”
“Psyche you out?" I repeat. "I'm your FRIEND. I wouldn't do that." He doesn't say anything. I can tell he doesn't believe me-not quite.”
“You dont believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because theyre true.”
“She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.”
“A harsh crack followed the rumble of thunder, a lightning strike. With that, the other musicians began to play, bringing in the tinkling sounds of light rain, the deeper thrum of thicker droplets. ...”
“Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible faith is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that "something" is a fake bathroom break.”
“I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.”
