535 quotes found
Author · American · 1988
American author (born 1988)
“Pain had a way of breaking time down. I thought about the next minute, the next hour. There wasn't enough space in my mind to put all those pieces together, to find words to summarise the whole of ...”
“There is an art to Noavek bullshit," Cyra said as she muted the feed. "We're taught it from birth.”
“Some days are harder than others, but I am ready to live each one of them. I can't sacrifice myself, this time.”
“There was only one option left, and it was letting go.”
“My mother wasn't a fool," I say. "She just understood something you didn't. That it's not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil."I back up another step and say, "...”
“The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.”
“She's a sailboat and I'm an anchor, pulling us both down.”
“But you should know that about Dauntless- girl, guy, whatever, it doesn't matter here. What matters is what you've got in your gut.”
“You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.”
“We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last people left.”
“It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules....”
“Caleb told me that our mother said there was evil in everyone, and the first step to loving someone else is to recognize that evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.”
“I breathe in. The water will wash my wounds clean. I breathe out. My mother submerged me in water when I was a baby, to give me to God. It has been a long time since I thought about God, but I thin...”
“Youre the one who has to live whit your choice" she says."Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.”
“Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.”
“Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.”
“Ingenuity requires creativity.”
“But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.”
“It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need is mercy. Do you know who taught me that?' A grin. 'You.”
“...we have something they want. Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places. We should be thankful that we know better.”
