I am selfish. I am brave.

Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.

Why is your heart racing Tris?

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.

Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.

I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.

If tragedy never entered our lives, we wouldn't appreciate the magic.

I don't beleive in peoples .I don't think it's always true.I believe Buddha knowledge and I believe in god, I beleive in goodness.I think different from others it is the way I am

We do not last, she thinks. In the end, only the stories survive.

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy the peace, the happiness of a hoe.

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

No one loves a country as much as someone who has chosen to live in it.

My mandate...is to promote the protection, rights and welfare of children.