Can you be a girl for a few seconds?I'm always a girl I frown.You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girlI twirl my hair around my finger. Kay.
I feel the urge, familiar now, to wrench myself from my body and speak directly into her mind. It is the same urge, I realize, that makes me want to kiss her every time I see her, because even a slive...
Looks like someone had a mood swing. She rolls her eyes. Like you don’t want toknow what his fears are. He acts so tough that he’s probably afraid of marshmallowsand really bright sunrises or somethin...
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...
Okay, okay. I set my hand on top of his and guide it to my chest, so it’s right over my heart. Feel my heartbeat. Can you feel it?Yes.Feel how steady it is?It’s fast.Yes, well, that has nothing to do...
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 cle...
We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last people left.
Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
I love you I say.I love you, too he says. I'll see you soon.
What is it with you today? says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are stillswollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.Oh, you know, I say. Sun shining. Birds...
And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her.
I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
There's a reason why she left them, Lauren, he says. His voice is deep, and it rumbles. What's your name? Um... I don't know why I hesitate. But Beatrice just doesn't sound right anymore.Think about i...
Relax Beatrice, I've driven a car before.' MARCUS'I've done a lot of things before, but that doesn't mean I'm any good at them!' TRIS
Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now.
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.
If you see someone in trouble, you should help them. Experiment or not.
If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?
If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it.
I pout my lower lip for a second, but then I grin as the pieces come together. why you like me! I exclaim. Because you're not very nice either! It makes so much more sense now.
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