Technology doesn’t change people’s basic needs or their natures.

Do you think we can be friends?” I asked.He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.

He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face.

If you keep waiting for the right time, it may never happen. Sometimes you have to make the most of the time you have.

I will never know you well enough. I will always want more.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

The way to be brave was to behave as if she were not afraid, even though she was.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

An apology for the Devil - it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

My film is intentionally political. And I think that's really the issue.

I'm not the color of my skin. I'm a story. One with a past and a future unwritten.

They miss Rachel and Lillian Rose every minute of every day. It doesn't bring them any comfort to see him standing there and know that their daughter and granddaughter are gone.

Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.

I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family. And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior