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Just start somewhere," Dr. Marshall had said to me as I ground a banana-pineapple one to bits betwee...

A lie never grows old.

If someone had asked him, “Ben, are you lonely? , ” he would have looked at that someone with real s...

It was very relaxing to be away from civilization, and this bothered me. I should not have found the...

Those who lived in peaceful nations had looked the other way as members of their own species starved...

You seem more...optimistic than usual," I observed. "I haven't seen you like this before.""Isn't it ...

I am Cinna's bird, ignited, flying frantically to escape something inescapable. The feathers of flam...

I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the sam...

I think about going to the lake, but I'm so weak that I barely make it to mymeeting place with Gale....

What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?

Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserv...

I thought he wanted it, anyway," I say. "Not like this," Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.

Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.

I believe you can only be lucky if you start out beingvery good

But there was no time to rest on my laurels.

I always have believed that we should not call it an Arab-Israeli issue or a Palestinian-Arab disput...

He walked out without his money.The lesson to me was clear: hold onto your integrity at all costs. N...

If you’re the girl that needs a boyfriend, and once she loses that boyfriend needs to replace it wit...

Just because as human beings, what we can't have is what we reply in our head over and over again be...

I write a lot of songs about love and I think that’s because to me love seems like this huge complic...

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thou...

Just being a human being, I’ve realized that before every big problem you create for yourself, befor...

There are no rules when it comes to love. I just try to let love surprise me because you never know ...

If you think about human nature, our favourite pair of shoes are the ones we bought yesterday, our f...

There are two different categories of love. The first category is called a fairytale. The second cat...

At some point you have to forget about grudges because they only hurt.

We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.

That's No'-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock, mistress,' said Not-as-big-as-...

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors ...

It is a wise man who said there is no inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.Fillossofee: M...

It ain't what people call you. It's what you answer to.

Sorry, am I being rude?" she asks."I'm used to saying whatever is on my mind. Mom used to say that p...

We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have live...

You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.

There is an art to Noavek bullshit," Cyra said as she muted the feed. "We're taught it from birth.

But you should know that about Dauntless- girl, guy, whatever, it doesn't matter here. What matters ...

She's a sailboat and I'm an anchor, pulling us both down.

The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.

The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry ...

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his ...

If you want romance, fuck a journalist.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singul...

Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your life.

Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, an...

Beware the person who won't be bothered with details.

Religion is what you do with your solitude.

Religion is what you do with your solitude.

A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know...

For everything sacred has the substance of dreams and memories, and so we experience the miracle of ...

So, many years later there were many who still complained and questioned, ‘Why must you pick up Chri...

I know a lie when I hear one.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”But I wonder if there’s no breakin...

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friend's notions and inclinations he possess...

The child-like, gum-chewing naïveté , the glamour rooted in despair, the self admiring carelessness,...

A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.

It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgott...

Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Bird by bird buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

It is the wilderness inthe mind, the desert wastes in the heart through which one wanders lost and a...

It has its dark splendor, to walk the nightmare terrain forever.

He who does not know how to believe, should not know.

Some people must dream broadly and guilelessly, if only to balance those who never dream at all.

Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!

Nor did he care about his childhood, for certainly I never heard him speak of it. I once questioned ...

It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry

There was nothing more bitter than a soul who had had its chance and thrown it away.

Sometimes Vin imagined she was like the ash, or the wind, or the mist itself. A thing without though...

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.

I Know not everyone will like me, but this is who I am So if you don't like it, Tough!

In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.

she...let the blood spill down instead of tears.

It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people.

She was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who care...

I cannot explain love. I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was ...

Sometimes he wondered if he did these things just to test himself. To see if the feelings had gone. ...

That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge sh...

all people start tocome apart finallyand there it is:just empty ashtrays in a roomor wisps of hair o...

all theorieslike clichesshot to hell,all these small faceslooking upbeautiful and believing;I wish t...

the best part waspulling down theshadesstuffing the doorbellwith ragsputting the phonein therefriger...

To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by w...

We don't tell anyone the darker side of things. We've been through all the breakups and addictions a...

Accursed be he that first invented war.

Real smart begins when you quit quoting other people.

I've never believed in measuring one's worth by the size of his or her bank account. I prefer to loo...

And then also, again, still, what are those boundaries, if they’re not baselines, that contain and d...

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.

Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent...

If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was...

Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dan...

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic...

Do what makes you happy, and don't care what others think.

For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.

This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people pray...

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape...