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. So you're easy to understand. So you won't pose a threat to them.
I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
The floor is solid metal in some places and metal grating in others. Everything smells like rotting garbage and fire.Don't say I never took you anywhere nice, Peter says.Wouldn't dream of it, I say.
I would be shocked by the lack of security if we were not at Amity headquarters. They often straddle the line between trust and stupidity.
Learning how to think in the midst of fear is a lesson that everyone needs to learn.
Resisting is worth doing.
I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart.
I love you I say.I love you, too he says. I'll see you soon.
My heart beats so hard it hurts, and I can't scream and I can't breathe, but I also feel everything, every vein and every fiber, every bone and every nerve, all awake and buzzing in my body as if char...
Lynn, she saved half our faction from stuff, says Marlene, tapping the bandage on her arm from where the Dauntless traitors shot her. Well, half of half of our faction.In some circles they call that...
But that wasn´t the first time I ever saw her. I saw her in the hallways at school, and at my mother’s false funeral, and walking the sidewalks in the Abnegation sector. I saw her, but I didn’t see he...
Sometimes people just want to be happy, even if it's not real.
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.
He turns toward me. I want to touch him, but I’m afraid of his bareness; afraid that he will make me bare too.‘Is this scaring you, Tris?’‘No,’ I croak. I clear my throat. ‘Not really. I’m only…afraid...
Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.
You will be the first test subject, Tobias. Beatrice, however.... She smiles. You are too injured to be of much use to me, so your execution will occur at the conclusion of this meeting.I try to hide...
My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it.
I feel like someone is pressing me into a mold that does not fit my body, forcing me intothe wrong shape.
Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage.
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