Decent Person Quotes

“Maybe if you stopped sulking in your self-pity, you'd see that you have everything you need to scale the Gauntlet,' he calls after me, his voice echoing down the hallway.

'My self-what?' I turn around, my jaw dropping.

'People die,' he says slowly, his jaw ticking before he drags in a deep breath. 'It's going to happen over and over again. It's the nature of what happens here. What makes you a rider is what you do after people die. You want to know why you're still alive? Because you're the scale I currently judge myself against every night. Every day I let you live, I get to convince myself that there's still a part of me that's a decent person. So if you want to quit, then please, spare me the temptation and fucking quit. But if you want to do something, then do it.'

'I'm too short to span the distance!' I hiss, uncaring that anyone could hear us.

'The right way isn't the only way. Figure it out.' Then he turns and walks away.

Fuck. Him.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“You're a decent person, Princess.' He sat back. 'That's why you care.'

'And you're not a decent person?'

Hawke lowered his gaze. 'I'm many things. Decent is rarely one of them.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“Listening to someone talk about what they care about isn’t a fake-boyfriend thing, Kenz. It’s a decent-person thing.”
― Becky Dean, Picture Perfect Boyfriend