Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The presence of danger has a way of making you feel fully awake.
I live in my head all day long and the world is a little dreamy.
Doing nothing is making certain you lose. Which is just gutless.
Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.
Write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.
The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.
One makes a trip by day, but by night one sets out on a journey.
Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me-
In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life.
Sometimes I just... want to see it again. Want to see you awake.
If Eric thinks I did something right, I must have done it wrong.
I'm not Dauntless - I'm Divergent. I am whatever I choose to be.
And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.
I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
And this is the only immortality you and i may share, my Lolita.
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen.
My problem is that all things are increasingly interesting to me
We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do.
A star appeared...and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance," Domingo said.
Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.
When you take the bull by the horns...what happens is a toss-up.
Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.
Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
A team of horses cannot overtake a word that has left the mouth.
Hate can only exist where people refuse to speak out against it.
Sometimes you get a flash of what you look like to other people.
Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]
Write every day. Writing is a muscle that gets stronger with use.
Lies kill love, it's been said. Well, what about frankness, then.
Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.
It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books.
Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.
I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.
How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.
'The Beach' novel, in my mind, was, in some respects, subversive.
Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.
Most people know that Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors.
Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" was extremely important to me.
I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.
Who would have guessed that the monster of fraud was a democracy?
Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.