💬 Quotes

"You have to believe in something, and you have to be willing to pay for it."

"Now it was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength."

"The world was too big and too mean, and he was too small and too scared, but at least he could hide in the woods."

"The Selection is not a prison. It’s a gift. A chance at a better life."

"I want you to break my heart. Do with it what you will."

"I’m not a princess. I’m just a girl who happens to be in a competition to become one."

"My life was never meant to be easy. It was meant to be lived."

"I don't want you to be anything other than what you are. And what you are is enough."

"Sometimes you have to step forward to realize how far you've come."

"It’s a reason to get up in the morning. It’s a reason to smile, sometimes even to feel good. You know, it’s a reason to live."

"The only thing worse than not getting what you want is getting it."

"Winter was coming, the season of death, the time of the long cold, and she was alone, waiting for a dream that had already turned into a nightmare."

"They were just waiting for something to happen, something that would make it all worth it, never realizing that the waiting was the life they were throwing away."

"I’m somebody now, Harry. Everybody likes me. Soon, millions of people will see me and they’ll all like me. I’ll be a star."

"In the end, it was always the same: the high, the crash, and the desperate, gnawing hunger for a tomorrow that never came."

"The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future."

"He was a very remarkable person. In the queer head of his, the seeds of all these things had grown into a sort of monstrous greatness."

"The horror! The horror!"

"It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind—as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness."

"Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself—that comes too late—a crop of unextinguishable regrets."