Four Quotes
Paul Hoffman
It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul.
4615 Veronica Roth
We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
2916 Veronica Roth
I'll be your family now," he says.
"I love you," I say. (....)
He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms for stability as he considers his response.
He frowns at me. "Say it again."
"Tobias," I say, "I love you.
2210 Veronica Roth
We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest." He clears his throat. "I continually struggle with kindness.
3971 Veronica Roth
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 flash in this dark. "I like this 'nice' thing.
3914 Veronica Roth
People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.
2297 Veronica Roth
But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost.
1650 Veronica Roth
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.
1569 Veronica Roth
But then I stopped allowing myself to dream, because it was more painful to long for things and never get them than to deal with whatever was in front of me. [...] I'm too old to hear confront nonsense anymore. Too old to believe that everything will be alright.
4621 Veronica Roth
Panic and terror aren't the only kinds of fear. There are deeper kinds, more terrible kinds. Apprehension and heavy, heavy dread.
3702 Veronica Roth
maybe here, in dauntless, bravery is the highest form of wisdom. the acknowledgement that life can and should be lived without fear
4678 Paul Hoffman
...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.
4496 Pittacus Lore
the price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings
3301 Veronica Roth
Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it.
1955 Veronica Roth
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?
4693 Veronica Roth
I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it.
4583 Enock Maregesi
Mbili jumulisha mbili wakati mwingine si sawa na nne. Ni sawa na nne jumulisha moja kwa sababu moja ni nguvu ya ushirikiano.
1591 Paul Hoffman
Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.
4815 Veronica Roth
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. So you're easy to understand. So you wont pose a threat to them.
4529 Veronica Roth
You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.
3879 Veronica Roth
You’re 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.
2593 Veronica Roth
Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something."
"Okay." He laughs shakily in my ear. "Why is your heart racing Tris?"
I cringe and say, "Well, I...I barely know you. I barely know you and I'm crammed up against you in a box, Four, what do you think?"...
"Maybe you were cut out for Candor," he says, "because you're a terrible liar.
2321 Veronica Roth
I love you" I say.
"I love you, too" he says. "I'll see you soon.
4198 Paul Hoffman
Hypocrites,’ replied Cale, ‘I’ve come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.
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