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#1

“...One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

tags: human-nature

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#2

“In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

tags: oversimplification

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#3

“I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

tags: ambition, failure, irony, optimism

859 likes

#4

“You see, a conflict always begins with an issue - a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

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#5

“It's funny how a flame can only burn your hand if you move too slow, you can tease it all you want and it never gets you, if you're quick enough.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

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#6

“Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

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#7

“That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

tags: hayden

170 likes

#8

“Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

3244 likes

#9

“Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

1513 likes

#10

“A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

tags: bravery, dauntless, four, tris

760 likes

#11

“Human reason can excuse any evil.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

tags: error, evil, humanity, reasoning

313 likes

#12

“Half of bravery is perspective.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

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#13

“But maybe what I saw as fearless was actually fear under control.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

201 likes

#14

“it's not about being fearless, it's about acting in spite of fear”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

64 likes

#15

“Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

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#16

“Selfless and bravery aren't that different”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

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#17

“We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: fate, harry-potter, inspirational

505 likes

#18

“You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: dumbledore, harry-potter

444 likes

#19

“The world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: black, choices, harry-potter, inside-us, light, sirius, sirius-black

1975 likes

#20

“Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

tags: harry-potter, j-k-rowling, voldemort

420 likes

#21

“The ones who love us never really leave us, you can always find them in here.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

tags: sirius-black

457 likes

#22

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

tags: dumbledore, philosophy

3559 likes

#23

“In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own.”
― J.K. Rowling

tags: albus-dumbledore, harry-potter

167 likes

#24

“Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: wit

10842 likes

#26

“Cowards hide [...] but warriors lie and wait [...] the only difference is whether you're motivated by fear or purpose.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

tags: connor, coward, elina, fear, lassiter, lev, shusterman, unsouled, unwind, warrior

67 likes

#27

“The sad truth about humanity...is that people believe what they're told. Maybe not the first time, but by the hundredth time, the craziest of ideas just becomes a given.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnWholly

tags: indoctrination

234 likes

#28

“How do you judge the brightness of a light when you’re the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnWholly

tags: fame

81 likes

#29

“Sure, when you're in the midst of your own suffering, it's easy to convince yourself that you're no good—but we are all tested in this life...The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnWholly

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#30

“We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

3595 likes

#31

“Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

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