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Quote by Veronica Roth

“I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.”

Author

Veronica Roth (born August 19, 1988) is an American novelist best known for her bestselling Divergent trilogy, which includes Divergent, Insurgent, and Allegiant. The series, set in a dystopian Chicago, explores themes of identity, choice, and societal structure. Roth graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in creative writing. She published Divergent at age 21, and the series has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, inspiring a successful film franchise. Roth continues to write and lives in Chicago with her family. more

“When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but warm, and then she stood before me, short and thin and plain and in all ways unremarkable- except that she had jumped first. The stiff had jumped first. Even I didn't jump first. Her eyes were so stern, so insistent. Beautiful.”

Way Firsts Body Hands Eye Beautiful Warm Gray Her Eyes Blur Tobias

Author:Veronica Roth

“Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.”

Young Hope Known This Life Moving On Damage Hard Times

Author:Veronica Roth

“The proper way to understand any social system was to view it from above.”

Way Social Views Social Systems

Book:The Luminaries

Source: The Luminaries

“He had to think he was Michael Wayland’s son, or the Lightwoods would not have protected him as they did. It was Michael they owed a debt to, not me. It was on Michael’s account that they loved him, not mine.” “Maybe they loved him on his own account,” said Clary.”

Thinking Said Mines Son Accounts Debt Protected

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning.”

Morning Sat Smoking Cigarette Smoking Cigarettes

Book:The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993

Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993

“Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?”

Belief Willingness

Book:MaddAddam: Book 3 of The MaddAddam Trilogy

Source: MaddAddam: Book 3 of The MaddAddam Trilogy

“Happy is the man who is nothing.”

Men

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”