Carve the Mark
Veronica Roth
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Soft hearts make the universe worth living in.”
“I may be in pain, but I am not weak.”
“You want to see people as extremes. Bad or good, trustworthy or not. I understand. It's easier that way. But that isn't how people work.”
“I am a Shotet. I am sharp as broken glass, and just as fragile. I tell lies better than I tell truths. I see all of the galaxy and never catch a glimpse of it.”
“This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to.”
“I didn't choose the blood that runs in my veins, any more than you chose your fate. You and I, we've become what we were made to become.”
“There was a hunger inside me, and there always had been. That hunger was stronger than pain, stronger than horror. It gnawed even after everything else inside me had given up. It was not hope; it did not soar; it slithered, clawed, and dragged, and it would not let me stop. And when I finally named it, I found it was something very simple: the desire to live.”
“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 summarize the whole of it. But the "keep going" part, I knew the words for. "Find another reason to go on," I said. "It doesn't have to be a good one, or a noble one. It just has to be a reason.”
“Though I had already read all those books, I wanted to open them again just to search out the parts he most treasured; I wanted to read them as if immersed in his mind.”
“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”
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