Jilly

“Then his eyes focus on something over my shoulder, and he starts walking. I turn to see Uriah jogging from the elevator bank. He is grinning.
“Heard a rumor you were a dirty traitor,” Uriah says.
“Yeah, whatever,” says Zeke.
They collide in an embrace that looks almost painful to me, slapping each other’s backs and laughing with their fists clasped between them.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“Everything seems excessive, now, and too intense, too important.”
― Judith Guest, Ordinary People

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“In youth there are always two forces fighting in people. The warm unthinking little animal struggles against the thing that reflects and remembers”
― Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio