madeline romberg

“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

“Why do you like books so much?” he asked. Miles answered without taking his face away from the window. “You never know what you’ll learn when you open one. And if it’s a story, you sort of fall into it. Then you live there for a while, instead of, you know, living here.”
― Wendy Mass, The Candymakers

“The battle is always the same, just with different chapters.”
― G. Norman Lippert, James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing

“I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant