“Did you just make a joke, Tris? We should have you on painkillers more often if your going to start cracking jokes.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts? — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“The night air slips into my lungs, and I feel like it is one of my first breaths.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left [the gun] upstairs. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
They all laugh. We all laugh. And it occurs to me that I might be meeting Tobias's true faction. They are not… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
He holds my face in both hands and kisses me back. I press into the distance between us until it is gone,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
So how can I hold Tobias’s desperation against him, like I’m better than him, like I’ve never let my own brokenness blind… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Got that gun?” Peter says to Tobias. “No,” says Tobias, “I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I haven't the stature to critique one of our literature's great novels, Tobias; and I'm not one of those who believe The… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
“It’s getting more difficult to be wise,” he says, laughing into my ear. I smile at him. “I think that’s how it’s… — 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
“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
When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her hand… — 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
“It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt." We stay in the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
You may have succeeded in shutting down the attack simulation, girl, but it was by luck alone, not skill. I would die… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I open the door to the fear landscape room and flip open the small black box that was in my back pocket… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Dauntless,' he says. 'I was born for Abnegation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But then I met her,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles, like he is surprised you bothered to look at him in the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I came here so that no one else would die. I came here to protect as many people as I could. And… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen,… — 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
“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
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
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
“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
You were afraid of shooting people?" "No," I say. "I was afraid of my considerable capacity to kill." How many young men… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image