535 quotes found
Author · American · 1988
American author (born 1988)
“Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here?I want to be.I can.I believe it.”
“I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.”
“When someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.”
“I have been able to be kind and pleasant to him because every time I think of what happened in Erudite headquarters, I immediately push the thought aside. But that can't be forgiveness - if I had f...”
“I can't imagine it's easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feelings are resolved.”
“It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do.”
“I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family.And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior”
“You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?”
“Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.”
“I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat...”
“I am afraid that if I start to sob, I will never stop until I shrivel up like a raisin.”
“I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my mother, and the pain they bequeathed to me like a family heirloom, handed down from generat...”
“It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt."We stay in the silence and the loneliness of the otherwise empty dormitory for a few more mi...”
“I was angry with him before. Im not really sure why. Maybe I was just angry that the world had become such a complicated place, that I have never known even a fraction of the truth about it. Or tha...”
“I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.”
“He still smiles all the time, but now his smiles look like they're made out of water, about to drip down his face.”
“I don't want to cry for Edward- at least not in the deep, personal way that you cry for a friend or loved one. I want to cry because something terrible happened, and I saw it, and I could not see a...”
“And everyone saw me. Tobias saw me.I hear footsteps. Tobias marches toward me and wrenches me to my feet."What the hell was that, Stiff?""I..." My breath comes in a hiccup. "I didn't-""Get yourself...”
“I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave”
“When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but warm, and then she stood before me, short and thin and plain and in all ways un...”
