“My point is,” Russell powers on, “that we all fall in love in part with an illusion, because we all present an illusion to someone who we want to love us. We heighten the best bits of ourselves and hide the worst bits.
“Take pride in your pain,” her mother had always told her. “You are stronger than those who have none.”
― The Giver Quartet Omnibus Deluxe Collector's Edition
― The Giver Quartet Omnibus Deluxe Collector's Edition
“I ignore my fear. When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist.”
― Divergent
― Divergent
“Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.”
― Divergent
― Divergent
“Brave enough to be quiet when quiet was called for, brave enough to observe before flinging myself into something, brave enough to not abandon my true self when someone else wanted to seduce or force me in a direction I didn’t want to go, brave enough to stand my ground quietly.”
― Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison
― Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison
“Now, seeing the newchild and its expression, he was reminded that the light eyes were not only a rarity but gave the one who had them a certain look—what was it? Depth, he decided; as if one were looking into the clear water of the river, down to the bottom, where things might lurk which hadn’t been discovered yet.”
― The Giver
― The Giver
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