"The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy."
- Philip Roth
"It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt."We stay in the silence and the loneliness of the otherwise empty dormitory for a few more minut..."
- Veronica Roth
"He must have stood there for a long time, making a list of all the terrible things he had done—almost killinng me was one of those thingss—and another list of all the good, heroic, brave things he had..."
"Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt"
"If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned it from anyone."
"Stupid. Why do people want to pretendthat death is sleep? It isn’t. It isn’t"
"It had always been Roth; from the moment he swaggered into that d- alley, where I'd been unsuccessfully fighting off a demon, it had been him for me. Maybe I'd been too blind to see that after he retu..."
- Jennifer L. Armentrout
"But I wasn't done. Staring into eyes that were as bright and beautiful than any tawny jewel, I said what I had never said before. And I said it with every ounce in my being behind it. "I love you, Rot..."
"You love Roth," he continued for me."You're in love with him." My eyes met his bright blue ones."Yes," I whispered, my lower lip trembling."It's him. It's always been him."
"The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's ho..."