Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark
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"It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need is mercy. Do you know who taught me that?' A grin. 'You.'"P459"
"You know,' he said, the condition of sourness--or monstrousness, as you might call it--doesn't have to be permanent.'P189"
"It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need is mercy. Do you know who taught me that?' A grin. 'You."
"Yeah, well, we're all afraid." I sighed. "The angry more than most, I think."
"Freedom. He offered it like someone who didn't know what it meant, someone who had never had it taken away."pg 185"
"This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to."
"I know what it is to become something you hate, I know how it hurts. But life is full of hurt. And your capacity for baring it is much greater than you believe."pg 287"
"What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them.pg 459"
"I may be in pain, but I am not weak."
"A harsh crack followed the rumble of thunder, a lightning strike. With that, the other musicians began to play, bringing in the tinkling sounds of light rain, the deeper thrum of thicker droplets. The others played the crashing waves, the lapping of water against a nonexistent shore. All around us were the sounds of water, dripping from faucets, gushing from waterfalls."
"Soft hearts make the universe worth living in."
"There is an art to Noavek bullshit," Cyra said as she muted the feed. "We're taught it from birth."
"I didn't scream I wasn't afraid. I knew I was strong enough to survive it all."
"Pain had a way of breaking time down. I thought about the next minute, the next hour. There wasn't enough space in my mind to put all those pieces together, to find words to summarise the whole of it. But the "keep going" part, I knew the words for.P151"
"Honor,” I said with a snort. “Honor has no place in survival."
"You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"P244"
"The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was risking when she risked her life."pg 337"