Dannii Elle > Recent Status Updates

"any man can do anything, and it's fine. The consequences are minimal, if there are even any consequences at all. A man can sexually assault a woman, brag about it, and run for president, and voters with full knowledge of this voted for him. Because what is a female life, comparatively? What is a pussy?"

"I can't think of a more humiliating way to be raped by male culture than to be forced to grow up as a boy against one's will."

"our bodies are all we have." A female will know how quickly she can be reduced to that, but there is an inverse power in this: our bodies are all we have, what excellent, beautiful, monsters we can be!"

"I'm thinking that going totally fucking insane is a completely rational outcome for an intelligent woman in this society"

"I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last."

This is by far the slowest instalment in this series but it is intriguing learning about the genesis of this world.

"Knowledge is power. Power to do evil... or power to do good, like what we're doing. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil."

"It doesn't take skill to stand in a place where no bullets find you, or to fire into the dark and hit a man you didn't see. It is all luck, or providence, depending on what you believe. And I don't know - have never known - exactly what I believe."

"I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint."

"Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind."

"Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you."

"We both have war inside of us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us."

"Ruthlessness and cold logic, it seems, can accomplish almost anything"

Ironically, candor could have prevented that entire scene.

"I didn't realise until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going."

"First we only want to be seen, but once we're seen, that's not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered."

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”

"we were not meant for this world."

GOOSEPIMPLES!! This has been the most intense first 20 pages!

Going straight from one post-apocalyptic novel into another probably isn't a great idea but the reading tastes want what the reading tastes want...

WAIT, WHAT!?

"reality and hope live parallel lives."

"What are we, if not what we remember?"

"It's easy to hate people in books. I'm a reader, too, and I know how characters can turn into Villains at the drop of an authorial hat (those capital Vs like dagger points or sharpened teeth). It just isn't like that in real life."

"It's a profoundly strange feeling, to stumble across someone whose desires are shaped so closely to your own, like reaching toward your reflection in a mirror and finding warm flesh under your fingertips. If you should ever be lucky enough to find that magical, fearful symmetry, I hope you're brave enough to grab it with both hands and not let go.

I wasn't. Then."

"I happen to believe every story is a love story if you catch it at the right moment, slantwise in the light of dusk."

"Those of you who are more than casually familiar with books - those of you who spend your free afternoons in fusty bookshops, who offer furtive, kindly strokes along the spines of familiar titles - understand that page-riffling is an essential element in the process of introducing oneself to a new book."

"When I was seven, I found a Door. There - look how tall and proud the word stands on the page now, the belly of that D like a black archway leading into white nothing."

"Better be generally in love with all than especially with one"

"Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up."