A Dauntless Ferris wheel wouldn’t have cars. You would just hang on tight with your hands, and good luck to you.
How can you fail a test you aren’t allowed to prepare for?
Sarcasm is always at someone’s expense.
I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.
What makes you different, makes you dangerous.
You know what mom told me once? She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil in ourselves, so we’re able to forgive them.
I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren’t all that different. All your life you’ve been training to forget yourself, so when you’re in danger, it becomes your first instinct.
Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives.
As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I’ve grown up, I’ve decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.
It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.
Humans can’t tolerate emptiness for long.
Looking at her is like waking up.
Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
An artist gives. Gives visually, gives through courses, or with free advice, through generosity of spirit and through a need to share.
I always appreciate people’s opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I’m writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it’s been good for me.
Dead people can be our heroes because they can’t disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.
Who cares about everyone? What about me?
If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you’ve created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there’s no conflict, there are no stories worth telling – or reading!
I think it’s a human tendency that’s been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.
If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn’t read it.