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21 " Eyes of a poet, hands of a killer. Who the hell are you? "
― Alexandra Bracken , The Darkest Legacy (The Darkest Minds, #4)
22 " One voice could be drowned out, but not a dozen. Not a hundred. Not a thousand. "
23 " If they wouldn't see us as human, we'd make sure they understood we were something more. "
24 " The names we gave ourselves would always have more meaning than the labels others forced on us. "
25 " To my surprise, he laughed softly, pressing his hand to his head and tilting it back. My eyes fixed on the strong line of his jaw, where there was a small scar just below his right cheek. 'Priyanka was right. I'm an idiot. You, on the other hand, are amazing. "
26 " Breaking a bad cycle can sometimes break a system. But breaking a system will always break the cycle. It's only a difference in the degree of certainty. "
27 " It'll only be unbearable when I give up hope of ever getting her back," she said. "And I won't. Not ever. My heart is a wheel. It breaks all the damn time, but, most days, it just rolls on." [Pryianka] "
28 " Watercolors couldn't have begun to capture the sky in that moment, just as it prepared to brighten for dawn. The cruelest truth about life is that it just goes on--the sun rises, gravity keeps your feet on the ground, flowers open their faces to greet the sky. Your world could be dissolving with grief or pain or anger, but the sky would still give you the most breathtaking sunrise of violet, warming to shell pink. "
29 " Everyone's entitled to stupidity, but they really abuse the privilege, don't they? "
30 " I had no problem with math. I liked it, actually. It was straightforward in a way nothing else seemed to be in life. There was only one right answer, and usually only one right way to reach it. It had none of those uncertainties of writing and reading, where a single word could change the meaning of a sentence. Math was fine. "
31 " She could have been anyone’s grandmother—if it hadn’t been for the flaming bottle she clutched in her hand. "
32 " La plupart des gens craignent le silence. Ils font tout pour le briser, parlent de n’importe quoi et posent des questions pour entendre une réponse. Beaucoup semblent considérer le silence comme un échec. Une preuve du manque d’intérêt qu’ils suscitent ou de leur incapacité à forger des liens. Ou peut-être sont-ils simplement nerveux à l’idée de ce que ce silence pourrait révéler. "
33 " Nous n’avons pas à être ce que les autres veulent que nous soyons. "
34 " It was raining harder now; the fat drops were falling too fast for the windshield wipers to keep up with them, making it look like as through we were heading straight into an impressionist’s vision of West Virginia. "
35 " Come together, leave together. "