No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us.
Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
Change, like healing, takes time.
I love the Wikipedia link chain because it has led me into some strange articles. Wikipedia is one of my favorites.
In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is.
Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
I know that I’ll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the teachers and librarians that I interact with.
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.
I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
You need to be passionate about the creative work that you’re doing, but you need to be kind of emotionally separated from how people react to it or how it does. Those things should be secondary, and primary should be your love of the creative act.
The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
I’m sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what’s wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there’s nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
I feel acutely aware of how young I am. In a way that is good. It’s productive. It makes me realise that I should be growing as a writer and a person.
It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.