You know her well. People are harder to sum up when you know them well.
The truth is, I want my choice to drive a knife right through my father’s heart, to pierce him with as much pain and embarrassment and disappointment as possible. There is only one choice that can do that.
I will not be a pawn, not for my mother, not for my father, and not for them. I will not belong to anyone but myself.
Everyone had a death song, no matter how young or healthy they were, and everyone had a life song, even when they were dying. Everyone was both dying and living at the same time.
She wished she could have told him that life was already full of dread, no matter who you were. That there was nothing you could have that you couldn’t one day lose. That autumn always gave way to winter, but it was her favorite time of year – those fleeting bursts of beauty before the branches went bare.
I didn’t scream I wasn’t afraid. I knew I was strong enough to survive it all.
I am a Shotet. I am sharp as a blade and just as strong, I see all of the galaxy and it is all mine.
I tell lies better than I tell truths.:.
Regardless, I love the person you were, the one you are, the one you will become.
Suddenly I’m aware of my own heartbeat. This is what my father said would happen. He told me that they would ask me if I was aware during the simulation, and he told me what to say when they did. “No,” I say. “If I was, do you think I would have chewed through my lip?” Tori studies me.
A soft heart was a gift, whether given easily or with great reluctance.
Our city is changing, faster now than ever before, and in order to keep up with it, we’ll have to change, too. We’ll have to become stronger, braver, better than we are now.
You don’t know how fate finds you, and neither do I. But until it does, we get to be whatever we can be.
I didn’t know it was possible to conquer fear in your body before you did it in your mind. That was when I knew I should be wary of him.
Nature is bloody, and as a whole, it favors strength over compassion.
Tobias Eaton was a shameful name, and now it is a powerful one.
If I wanted to put up with Candor smart-mouths, I would have joined their faction.
Grief was a weight that made it impossible to move through everyday.
And don’t call me ‘Four’, okay? It’s nice to hear my name again.
She’s a sailboat and I’m an anchor, pulling us both down.