“Elfangor laughed in my mind. "You don't have to give up your principles to win. Isn't there always an alternative to sacrifice… — K. A. Applegate Copy Share Image
All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
As far as which writers embody this form of gentle power - Tobias Wolff, for sure. His persona and his writing both… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“And when we rise, hand in hand, I realize that if we had both chosen differently we might have ended up doing… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“The tiles in the Merciless Mart are always black and white, and here they are in a checkered pattern. If I unfocus… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I don't hate anybody," Tobias said calmly. "It's strange, but right now, I don't even hate the Yeerks. It's like, they're trying… — K. A. Applegate Copy Share Image
It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (...) But please, when you see… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
A breeze blows through the alley, pushing me to one side, and I think of scaling the Ferris wheel with Tobias. He… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“You think my first instinct is to protect you because you are small or a girl or a stiff, but you are… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I find my anger ebbing away, and I'm lost in muffled grief again, this time not just for Tris, but for Uriah,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Tobias Buckell combines old world with new in his novel CRYSTAL RAIN. While the rich cultures, drawn in part from Caribbean history… — Karin Lowachee Copy Share Image
You’re too important to just … die.” He shakes his head. He won’t even look at me—his eyes keep shifting across my… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I read somewhere, one, that crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Whoa there, Tobias," says the man to my left. "Weren't you raised a Stiff? I thought the most you people did was...… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Can you tell me where to find Tobias'? I ask. When I imagine his face, affection for him bubbles up inside of… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt -- the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Tobias asked. "Weird? Weird?" Marco crowed. "The talking bird wants to know if getting information on the location of an alien from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
His eyes search the crowd until they find my face. My heartbeat lives in my throat; lives in my cheeks. "I still… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I'll be your family now," he says. "I love you," I say. (…) He stares at me. I wait with my hands… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I feel his heartbeat against my cheek,as fast as my own. "Are you afraid of me, too, Tobias?" "Terrified," he replies with… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“He wraps his arms around me and holds me tight for a few seconds. His breaths tickle my ear, and I close… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I do like to hit people-I like the explosion of power and energy, and the feeling that I am untouchable because I… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“But there is something appealing about it here too, a freedom, a refusal to belong to theses arbitrary categories we've made for… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family. And he assured me that he was my… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
If we stay together, I'll have to forgive you over and over again, and if you're still in this, you'll have to… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I hold the gun out from my body, my arms straight, just as Four taught me, when that was his only name.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
He slides his hand over my cheek, one finger anchored behind my ear. Then he tilts his head down and kisses me,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Can I ask why you’re throwing knives at cheese?’ ‘Caleb came by to discuss something,’ Tobias says, leaning his head against the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“... how often is it possible to see the big picture, really?" Rachel said. "Things happen fast. You just have to make… — K. A. Applegate Copy Share Image
That became my aesthetic - a very Chekhovian, American realist aesthetic in the tradition of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff.… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
THE SERUM WEARS off five hours later, when the sun is just beginning to set. Tobias shut me in my room for… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Elfangor laughed in my mind. "Victory without sacrifice? You know better than that." "You don't have to give up your principles to… — K. A. Applegate Copy Share Image
What do--" Tobias's voice. Tobias! "Oh my God. Oh--" "Spare me your blubbering, okay? Peter says. "She's not dead; she's just paralyzed.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
