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"The thing which seems so glorious when viewed from the heights of the country's cause looks so muddy when seen from the bottom. One begins by getting angry and then feels disgusted."
"When people get cynical about love, they should look at us [Yoko and John Lennon] and see it is possible"
"Any experience can be transformed into something of value. Everything depends on the way you look at things. You cannot have the success without the failures."
"It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people."
"For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful."
"Maybe I won't look so bad when you're not standing next to me."
"Hey." Tod squeezed my hand to draw me out of my thoughts. "I think death looks good on you."
"Holy silicone suppository, Batman!” Ethan said, grinning. Dan snorted, Parker coughed to disguise a laugh, and I glared at them all. “What?” My brother shrugged defensively. “That’s what it looks like."
"He shrugged, looking right into my eyes. "Right now, this is all I feel." He held our intertwined hands up for me to see and I wanted to look away, but I couldn't break the hold his gaze had on me, like he could see more than anyone else saw. Things I couldn't see myself."
"Opportunities are always there for us to grow, opportunities are always there for us to come closer to each other & come closer to God; if we just look for them."
"Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you."
"You won," Four mutters. "Stop." I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes are too wide; they look alarmed."
"You always look like someone's sucked the life right out of you when something fascinates you. -Tris"
"I suppose everything is bound to look different when you aren't on your way to die."
"He's one of the last friends I have," she says, her voice breaking. "I don't know if I'll ever be able to look at you the same way again."
"My Tris should look pale and small--she is pale and small, after all--but instead the room is full of her."
"I pause a second. He doesn't look at me the way Will, Christina, and Al sometimes do - like I am too small and too weak to be of any use, and they pity me for it."
"He pus his lips next to my ear and says, “You look good, Tris."
"I note how calm she looks and how focused she is. She is well-practiced in the art of losing herself. I can't say the same of myself."
"He looks like a man who has spent most of his life frowning."
