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  • #1
    Veronica Roth
    “Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.”
    Veronica Roth, Insurgent

  • #2
    Veronica Roth
    “I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #3
    Veronica Roth
    “Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.'

    'Well,' he says, 'I would only go if there was cake.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #4
    Veronica Roth
    “Whoa there, Tobias," says the man to my left. "Weren't you raised a Stiff? I thought the most you people did was... graze hands or something."
    "Then how do you explain all the Abnegation children?" Tobias raises his eyebrows.
    "They are brought into being by sheer force of will," the woman on the arm of the chair interjects. "Didn't you know that, Tobias?"
    "No, I wasn't aware." He grins. "My apologies.”
    Veronica Roth, Insurgent

  • #5
    Veronica Roth
    “Sometimes,” he says, sliding his arm across my shoulders, “people just want to be happy, even if it’s not real.”
    Veronica Roth, Insurgent

  • #6
    Veronica Roth
    “Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #7
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #8
    Sarah Strohmeyer
    “This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the “over” and just think, then we could do, too. Only we’d be smarter doers because we’d be thinkers.”
    Sarah Strohmeyer, Smart Girls Get What They Want

  • #9
    Sarah Strohmeyer
    “Maybe we were being a bit unrealistic, but we had this hope that if we could just get into the Ivy League, everything would be set. We dreamed of Gothic libraries and leafy green quads and romantic dorms with fireplaces and guys who were not only cute but also smart and charming, and, quite possibly, British. In college, we believed, we’d finally find our people.”
    Sarah Strohmeyer, Smart Girls Get What They Want

  • #10
    Sarah Strohmeyer
    “Coeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire.
    The heart that sighs does not have what it desires.”
    Sarah Strohmeyer, Smart Girls Get What They Want

  • #11
    Veronica Roth
    “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #12
    Veronica Roth
    “Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #13
    Veronica Roth
    “A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #14
    Veronica Roth
    “I have something I need to tell you," he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and look back at him. "I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though."
    "That's sensible of you," I say, smiling too. "We should find some paper so you can make a list or a chart or something."
    I feel his laughter against my side, his nose sliding along my jaw, his lips pressing my ear.
    "Maybe I'm already sure," he says, "and I just don't want to frighten you."
    I laugh a little. "Then you should know better."
    "Fine," he says. "Then I love you.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #15
    Veronica Roth
    “I am selfish. I am brave.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #16
    Veronica Roth
    “Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #17
    Veronica Roth
    “People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.”
    Veronica Roth, Insurgent

  • #18
    Veronica Roth
    “We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.”
    Veronica Roth, Insurgent

  • #19
    Veronica Roth
    “I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless.
    I am Divergent.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #20
    Veronica Roth
    “It must require bravery to be honest all the time.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #21
    Veronica Roth
    “Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #22
    Veronica Roth
    “...there is power in self-sacrifice.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #23
    Veronica Roth
    “Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #24
    Veronica Roth
    “It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.”
    Veronica Roth, Insurgent

  • #25
    “First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
    Nicholas Klein

  • #26
    James  Patterson
    “Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.”
    James Patterson, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

  • #27
    James  Patterson
    “Did you know that wasn’t me, the other Max?” I asked.
    “Yeah.”
    “When?”
    “Right away.”
    “How?” I persisted. “We look identical. She even had identical scars and scratches. She was wearing my clothes. How could you tell us apart?”
    He turned to me and grinned, making my world brighter. “She offered to cook breakfast.”
    James Patterson, School's Out—Forever

  • #28
    Plato
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
    Plato

  • #29
    Marie Lu
    “Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
    Marie Lu, Legend

  • #30
    Marie Lu
    “What a joke! Poor little rich girl's fallen in love with the Republic's most famous criminal.”
    Marie Lu, Legend



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