Somewhere inside me is a merciful, forgiving person. Somewhere there is a girl who tries to understand what people are going through, who accepts that people do evil things and that desperation leads...
How can you fail a test you aren't allowed to prepare for?
How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me -- the boy whose real name is powerful enough to keep us alive in a train car full of enemies?
Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.
Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.
I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving through the world. There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is importan...
THE SERUM WEARS off five hours later, when the sun is just beginning to set. Tobias shut me in my room for the rest of the day, checking on me every hour. This time when he comes in, I am sitting on t...
Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
I'm going to shoot a muffin off Marlene's head.
I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.
It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.
My dear girl. I am his family. I am permanent. You are only temporary.
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
I decide to keep the shirt to remind me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
I do know who you are. I just needed to be reminded.
To me, 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. Caleb's...
My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldn’t belong there, among people who give without thinking and care without trying.
You want to see people as extremes. Bad or good, trustworthy or not. I understand. It's easier that way. But that isn't how people work.
Really? I thought the transfers will go through Four’s landscape, says Uriah. Like he would let anyone do that, she says, snorting.Something inside me gets warm and soft. He let me go through it.
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