If we keep punishing people for what their parents or their ancestors have done, the world as a whole can never move forward. Society will never grow.

Ask very pointed questions. Sharp as sword blades, or laser blasts, if you catch my meaning.

That’s the thing I’m learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don’t change it, it don’t get changed.

It was one of those dreams from which she woke up depressed about her reality, filled with a longing that pulled at her insides, wishing the dream could have lasted forever, or at least much...

I wanted to punch him and understand him at the same time.

When you stop being owned by your emotions you’ll stop feeling vulnerable to people. ~ Remiel

You’ll find a way. You’ll always find a way. And on the rare occasions when you can’t, you’ll have friends who will.

Never take offense. Even if someone is robbing you blind, it’s usually nothing personal. Survival is a funny thing, and we all react differently to it. Some react to fear and forget to be human...

My chest tightens to the point I fear my heart will suffocate from the pressure of it. Society’s standards are the total opposite from how I was raised. The boy who I thought to be...

I have been speaking to you all of your life. In the gurgle of a tide pool, I breathed myself into you. I drew you down from the trees and I lifted you onto your...

People didn’t love all of this when they still had it. If you love something, you do what’s best for it. You don’t destroy it.

But a thought swarmed in me; what if he, this yellow-eyed being – in his ridiculous, dirty bundle of trees, in his uncalculated life – is happier than us?

HAPPINESS FOR EVERYBODY, FREE, AND NO ONE WILL GO AWAY UNSATISFIED!

Everyone has the right to believe whatever he or she wants. Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Pagans, atheitsts, and every other religion. People can follow whichever they choose. Even if you and I believe Christianity is the...

Ideas combined with courage can change the world.

It feels so good to find out I mean everything to the person who means everything to me.

Are you in any pain? (Ariana Skyee)Only my heart. (Cal Remus)

There’s a big difference between being numb to something and being immune to it.

How do you bear it?” Finnick looks at me in disbelief. “I don’t, Katniss! Obviously, I don’t. I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there’s no relief in waking up.” Something in...

I had evolved a year too soon, and it nearly broke me

Well you know what they say. It’s always raining somewhere.

I’m just one more embarrassing confession away from taking over the world.” –Spencer Nye

I’m thinking ahead, imagining what our lives together would be like once we’re free from this hell and allowed to live and let go. You know? Really let go of our pain and finally enjoy...

I won’t pressure you, Ari, but I’m not opposed to subtle acts of persuasion.

The current Administration is committed to solving the greatest problems of our time—climate change, sustainability, the deficit, the impending crisis stemming from shortfalls in Social Security and Medicare, healthcare, and the problems that our nation...

A leader’s first duty is to look after his or her people, especially those who are sick, hungry, or thirsty.

That what?” “That I knew i misjudged you. That you love him. I’m not saying In what way. Maybe you don’t know yourself. But anyone paying attention could see how much you care about him,”...

Biking up the same mile-and-a-half long asphalt hill is so much harder when I know that at the end of the journey I’ll either be an outlaw, or I’ll be dead.

He could argue a case for anything, but that doesn’t change the fact he’s wrong most of the time.

A fellow who once manipulated the money in your wallet but now curses the fellow who does.

If I didn’t love so damn hard Iwouldn’t have someone to risk my life for.

I would cry if I could, but instead I just feel my heart rip apart.

Mortal has not been a habitable place for a long time. We have been trying to survive patching it but one day it will break completely. Twinmortal is the future for all of us. You...

Money is a tool we use to reach certain ends. Nothing more, nothing less. It’s hard to come by, though, so when opportunities arise, we need to make the most of them.

It’s time, Perry”. He let her go. She took a step back, taking in his face one last time. His green eyes. The bend in his nose and the scars on his cheek. All the...

I would rather never make a penny on book sales and know that many had derived some fair pleasure from my writing, than to know that very few had ever taken a chance on my...

Don’t stay with someone who drives you crazy. Find someone who keeps you sane.

Inside the room there sat a rocker, which she sat on, and which had rocked her while she sipped the beer, because in spite of herself she had become so giddy to have so quickly...

It had been along time since I breached the surface of the world above. My parents wouldn’t allow it. So as far as I knew, the survivors that remained were savages. I’d seen a few...

It’s degrading being routinely subjected to a battery of medical tests to ensure I continue to deserve a place in this new world.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

You shouldn’t say mean things to people before they kill you. It’s being a sore loser.

They were like her rocks. Imperfect and surprising and maybe better in the long run than certainties. Chances, she thought, were life

I am chaos in this ordered society, the flaw in a carefully wrought plan. I am turbulence in the queen’s eternal river.

The storage capacity of the average human brain is two-hundred and fifty-six exabytes. However, the average adult human only uses approximately one billionth of that storage space effectively. This means my knowledge capacity is approximately...

Nature is cheaper than therapy.

That’s the funny thing about guns; even untrained hands can feel powerful using them. But take that gun away and you’re left with nothing but a coward whose only skill is how to blindly pull...

But he couldn’t risk taking the helmet off. It was the only thing saving him from the firing squad. He was no longer able to keep his thoughts silent. No longer able to squash his...

Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.

A joke is a witticism or play on words that’s meant to be funny. I say ‘meant to be’ because most jokes aren’t funny. They range between mildly amusing and grimace-inducingly annoying.