Peace is restrained.
The way he talks about getting out – it’s like he thinks we’re trapped.
That is what the Bureau – and the entire government, probably – is doing: conditioning people to be happy under its thumb.
Do you think I’m important to the Dauntless? Because I’m not. I’m just someone who isn’t afraid of much.
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.