top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I also don't believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much like an Erudite afterlife to me, all accuracy and no feeling."
Standard
Customized
More
"Death paused. YOU HAVE PERHAPS HEARD THE PHRASE, he said, THAT HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE?'Yes. Yes, of course.'Death nodded. IN TIME, he said, YOU WILL LEARN THAT IT IS WRONG."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Maybe we do go home, finally."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I find the concept of Hell to be more honest than that of everyday life. In Hell, no one can lie to you, because you already know what to expect for the rest of eternity. Nothing more and nothing less."
Author Name
Personal Development
"What the hell kind of Hell was this supposed to be?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Heaven must be very beautiful, of course, the Bible says so - but, Anne, it won't be what I've been used to."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Reincarnation?He shrugged. "I've never seen any evidence that it's real. But I've never seen anything that disproves it either. I believe the afterlife is better than what we have here-and it would take something extraordinary to make someone willing to come back."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and create the afterlife."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There was, no doubt, a confusion of persons in damnation: what Pantheists falsely hoped of Heaven bad men really received in Hell. They were melted down into their Master, as a lead soldier slips down and loses his shape in the ladle over the gas ring."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I think maybe Hell is a place. But you don't have to stay anywhere forever."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already."
Loneliness
"You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"
Risk
"I can't leave her now. I like her too much. There, I said it. But I won't say it again."
Romance
"I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient. There's nothing especially brave about wandering dark streets with no flashlight, but we are not supposed to need help, even from light. We are supposed to be capable of anything. I like that. Because there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready."
Bravery
"If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it."
Strategy
"Human reason can excuse any evil."
Morality
"I am wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, black shoes--new clothes, but beneath them, my Dauntless tattoos. It is impossible to erase my choices. Especially these."
Identity
"All three combined is...a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind."
Humor
"Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion.I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity."
Emotion
"Honor, I said with a snort. "Honor has no place in survival."
Survival
bottom of page