I have your back. I didn't mean only when it's easy. All the time.

But I think that no matter how smart, people usually see what they're already looking for, that's all.

I look out the window again, taking slow, deep breaths into a body too tense to move. And as I stare out at the land, I think that this, if nothing else, is compelling evidence for my parents’ God, that our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel. -Tris Prior

In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.

Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.

I decide to do what I always do when I'm not sure what's going on: I act like everyone else.