“Dead people can be our heroes because they can't disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.”
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People Quotes — page 881 of 5018
“I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.”
“Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.”
“People, even genetically damaged people, make choices. That’s what matters.’”
“All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter.”
“Yes," Marcus says. "I understand that you are concerned -- that you all are concerned. You had never heard of the Divergent a week ago, and now all that you know is that they are immune to something to which you are susceptible, and that is a frightening thing. But I can assure you that there is nothing to be afraid of, as far as we are concerned." As he speaks, his head tilts and his eyebrows lift in sympathy, and I understand at once why some people like him. He makes you feel that if you just placed everything in his hands, he would take care of it.”
“That's the first time I've ever said those words out loud, and now I hear how strange they are. How many young men fear that there is a monster instead them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves.”
“Is this Prior?" "In the flesh." "Why's he bleeding?" "Because he's an idiot." Zeke offers me a black jacket with a factionless symbol stitched into the collar. "I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose." I wrap the jacket around Caleb's shoulders and fasten one of the buttons over his chest. He avoids my eyes. "I think it's a new phenomenon.", I say.”
“I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die, and we move on to the next dangerous thing. The sooner that lesson sinks in, the better chance I have at surviving initiation.”
“Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.”
“My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldn’t belong there, among people who give without thinking and care without trying.”
“I get the strange urge to hit my head against the wall. Other people's sobs make me feel uncomfortable.”
“Few people who are born into Abnegation choose to leave it. When they do, we remember.”
“I don’t know what world you live in, but in mine, people only do things for you for one of two reasons. The first is if they want something in return. And the second is if they feel like they owe you something.”
“You don’t always have to smack people in the face with how strong you are”
“I slowly realized that perfectionism just not that important. What's more important is to try to love the people around you. Whatever that means at a particular time is the best you can do.”
“You need to be passionate about the creative work that you're doing, but you need to be kind of emotionally separated from how people react to it or how it does. Those things should be secondary, and primary should be your love of the creative act.”
“People who try to be nice are false. They're liars. You should never force your behavior to be a certain way. You should just be. Maybe it's not going to be nice, but at least it'll be honest.”
“People are imperfect, but that doesn’t mean they spoil like milk.”
“People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.”