535 quotes found
Author · American · 1988
American author (born 1988)
“But a person can only keep reality - and anger - at bay for so long before the truth comes back again.”
“Some of my anger has faded, but it isn't hard to call back. All I have to do is think about how cold the air was and how loud the laughter was. Look at her. She's a child.”
“I still want to be angry, but I have to let my anger go.”
“It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks”
“Everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.”
“I grabbed hold of my Divergence like it was a hand outstretched to save me. I needed that word to tell me who I was when everything else was coming apart around me. But now I'm wondering if I need ...”
“(...) a man encased in ice, his eyes hard and his voice like a frosty exhale.”
“Sometimes I feel like we are the same, but sometimes, like right now, I feel the separation between our personalities like I've just run into a wall.”
“Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But o...”
“I close my eyes. I don't expect Four to reassure me, and he makes no effort to, but I feel better standing here than I did out there among the people who are my friends, my faction.”
“I can't leave her now. I like her too much. There, I said it. But I won't say it again.”
“If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned it from anyone.”
“- It doesn't do anything obvious. But it might be able to do something in here. - Then she touched her hand to her heart. - Beautiful things sometimes do.”
“Why is your heart racing Tris?”
“It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.”
“Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words "Thank you for your honesty" at different volumes and pitches, and my anger beg...”
“Mockery is childish. It does not become you.”
“I am selfish. I am brave.”
“He must have stood there for a long time, making a list of all the terrible things he had donealmost killinng me was one of those thingssand another list of all the good, heroic, brave things he ha...”
“no wonder you left."Yeah," i say, rolling my eyes. " It was just because of the food.”
