Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
— Insurgent by Veronica Roth
‘You’re wrong,’ I say. ‘We may both be bad, but there’s a huge difference between us- I’m not content with being this way.’
— Insurgent by Veronica Roth
I think maybe everybody falls,” I say. “I think maybe we all do. And I don’t think that’s the asking.”
I pull on her arms gently to make sure she’s listening.
“I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
— The Knife Of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
I think how hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it’s dangerous, too, that it’s painful and risky, that it’s making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
— The Knife Of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
But they deserve to be warned, don’t they?
But what if that endangers us?
You see? What’s the right answer?
— The Knife Of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
But a knife ain’t just a thing, is it? It’s a choice, it’s something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don’t. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.
— The Knife Of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Of course, you never really forget anyone, but you certainly release them. You stop allowing their history to have any meaning for you today. You let them change their haircut, let them move, let them fall in love again. And when you see this person you have let go, you realize that there is no reason to be sad. The person you knew exists somewhere, but you are separated by too much time to reach them again.
— Chelsea Fagan, How We Let People Go (via fra-gility)
Egypt, 1920s, in colour. Autochromes taken by Gervais Courtellemont and W. Robert Moore for National Geographic.
(via t-r-o-p-i-c-air)
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (via approachingsignificance)
(via socio-logic)
