“Maybe you were cut out for Candor, Four, because you're a terrible liar.”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The Traitor
“Panic and terror aren't the only kinds of fear. There are deeper kinds, more terrible kinds. Apprehension and heavy, heavy dread.”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The Traitor
“When she’s close enough, she extends her hand. “Hello, my name is Natalie. I’m Beatrice’s mother.” Beatrice. That name is so wrong for her.”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The Traitor
“She's right, she hardly knows me. But still: Her heart is racing.”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The Traitor
“It's over," I say, wincing- she punches harder than she realizes. I ignore the pain and run a hand over her hair, because I'm stupid, and inappropriate, and stupid...”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The Traitor
“I am not a perfect Dauntless member; I am someone who believes that more than one virtue should be prized; I am Divergent.”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The Traitor
“Fear doesn't shut you down, (...) it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating.”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The Traitor
“I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding,”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The Traitor
“I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but opened is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding.”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The Traitor
“If he were older and stronger, would he have given water to those men? Or would he, like most of the group, have kept his water for himself?”
― Linda Sue Park, quote from A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
“There was a time when obesity was the losing battle our people faced. Not so anymore. As soon as food became scarce, curves became coveted.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Queen of All that Dies
“You have nothing in your arsenal but a pretty face—and a lying one at that.”
― Chanda Hahn, quote from Reign
“the problem of life was as simple as it was classic. Politics offered no difficulties, for there the moral law was a sure guide. Social perfection was also sure, because human nature worked for Good, and three instruments were all she asked — Suffrage, Common Schools, and Press. On these points doubt was forbidden. Education was divine, and man needed only a correct knowledge of facts to reach perfection:
"Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts.”
― Henry Adams, quote from The Education of Henry Adams
“Jakiś dystyngowany lęk, że swymi pytaniami sprowokował zbyt wielką poufałość i dowie się czegoś, co go nic nie obchodzi, krzyżowała się w nim z już rozbudzoną ciekawością i uwagą, z pragnieniem, by się z tych ust dowiedzieć czegoś więcej.”
― Thomas Mann, quote from Joseph and His Brothers
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