535 quotes found
Author · American · 1988
American author (born 1988)
“That is death - shifting from "is" to "was.”
“Soft hearts make the universe worth living in.”
“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.”
“Il dolore aveva un suo modo di scomporre il tempo. Pensavo al minuto successivo, all'ora successiva. Non c'era abbastanza spazio nella mia mente per mettere insieme tutti quei pezzi, per trovare le...”
“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
“Freedom. He offered it like someone who didn't know what it meant, someone who had never had it taken away."pg 185”
“Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.”
“You're not very nice," I say, grinning."You're one to talk.""Hey, I could be nice if I tried.""Hmm." He taps his chin. "Say something nice, then.""You're very good-looking."He smiles, his teeth a f...”
“You wont shoot me.""People tend to overestimate my character," I say quietly. "They think that because Im small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I cant possibly be cruel. But theyre wrong.”
“I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Becauseinside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom, toward Tobias, and, aboveall, toward l...”
“But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost.”
“If she's in pain now she doesn't show it; she just closes her eyes and surrenders, and that is worse than her screaming for help, somehow.”
“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, w...”
“Intentions are the only thing they care about. They try to make you think they care about what you do, but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way, they want you to think a certain way...”
“There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage-in controlling something, period.”
“A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.”
“I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient. There's nothing especially brave about wandering dark street...”
“Sorry, am I being rude?" she asks."I'm used to saying whatever is on my mind. Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging”
“Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity shouldnt rely on it, because its not guaranteed and its not permane...”
“I didn't scream I wasn't afraid. I knew I was strong enough to survive it all.”
