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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
You can't be fearless, remember? Because you still care about things. About your life.
I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.
Morning," I say. "Shh," she says. "If you don't acknowledge it, maybe it will go away.
Few people who are born into Abnegation choose to leave it. When they do, we remember.
Four!" I call out. Why am I calling a number? Oh yes. Because that's his name. — Tris.
My first instinct is to push you until you break just to see how hard I have to press.
Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.
I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.
It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave.
I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.
How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.
I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.
Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted.
'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'
it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody
Dream long enough and dream hard enough you will come to know dreaming can make it so.
Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.
The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it.
If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.
A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed.
She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.
Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.
And let her think I don't care she's with you? No can do. She needs to know what I want
'Until Friday Night' is the first book in my new young adult series, 'The Field Party.'
The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.
Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.
The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized.
Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.
Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement
If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?
Why can't you understand? The stars fall down now and then. The gaps have to be filled.
Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.
He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.
I feel like my eyes are killing me at the end of the day and that I shouldn't use them.
There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.
In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.
Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.
To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.
My own accumulation of influences is actually what made me a writer in the first place.
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
Everything that happened in the past "It was all necessary to bring us to where we are.
My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze.
In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.