I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
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We seem weak because we want to.
VICTORIA AVEYARD Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.
SUZANNE COLLINS We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared
SUZANNE COLLINS Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE This concept could easily have gone awry. Stories about love tend to go that way sometimes. They wan...
VERONICA ROTH We had a script reading, and that's where we met J.K. Rowling, which was really exciting.
RUPERT GRINT I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' f...
LEV GROSSMAN Draco: "Hermione Granger, I’m being bossed around by Hermione Granger."
— J.K. Rowling (Ha...
J.K. ROWLING LDraco: "Hermione Granger, I’m being bossed around by Hermione Granger."
— J.K. Rowling (H...
J.K. ROWLING She was happy, yes, in her own way, as best as she knew.
But there’s a difference between a s...
VICTORIA AVEYARD We never had any doubt that Harry Potter and his world came from the rich and extraordinary imaginat...
BARBARA MARCUS Казвам се Катнис Евърдийн. Защо не съм мъртва? Би трябв�...
Сюзан Колинс Оказва се, че въпросът, който ме разяжда от толкова вре�...
Сюзан Колинс If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole.
SUZANNE COLLINS Why do you say vague things if you don't want to be asked about them?
VERONICA ROTH J.K. Rowling called in May to invite me to her house and interview her on the day of the new book's ...
EMERSON SPARTZ J.K. Rowling called in May to invite me to her house and interview her on the day of the new book's ...
EMERSON SPARTZ The Hobbit is based on an earlier, shorter book, written by legendary author J.K. Rowling. This make...
MIKE STOKLASA I feel uneasy. It's not often that you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the dar...
VERONICA ROTH Първо зървам русата плитка, която се спуска по гърба й. ...
Сюзан Колинс Приближавам се към камерата, обзета от ярост:
— През...
Сюзан Колинс I’m about to haul my packs into a tree to make camp when a silver parachute floats down and lands ...
SUZANNE COLLINS At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them.
SUZANNE COLLINS By late afternoon I lie with my head in Peeta’s lap making a crown of flowers while he fiddles wit...
SUZANNE COLLINS I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing e...
SUZANNE COLLINS Eyes so black they seem all pupils.
SUZANNE COLLINS No more kisses for you, until you have eaten !
SUZANNE COLLINS Затова после, когато той прошепва: „Ти ме обичаш. Вярно...
Сюзан Колинс Ще им кажа как оцелявам. Ще им кажа, че в лошите сутрини ...
Сюзан Колинс Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to p...
VERONICA ROTH Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not n...
VERONICA ROTH Nobody sells books like J.K. Rowling. We have a rule in publishing: Never compare anything to 'H...
CASSANDRA CLARE By the way, the Harry Potter series is literature, in spite of what some people might say. The way J...
GARY OLDMAN If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that wi...
VERONICA ROTH At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thi...
SUZANNE COLLINS How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.
SUZANNE COLLINS It's weird, how much he's noticed me... And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I ima...
SUZANNE COLLINS Quiero morir siendo yo mismo. ¿Tiene sentido?
SUZANNE COLLINS Двамата с Пийта се сближаваме. Все още има моменти, ког�...
Сюзан Колинс You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know.
SUZANNE COLLINS El Distrito 12, donde puedes morirte de hambre sin poner en peligro tu seguridad.
SUZANNE COLLINS Smells like home.
SUZANNE COLLINS But it's not true. A mockingbird is just a songbird. A mockingjay is a creature the Capitol never in...
SUZANNE COLLINS Sometimes I still forget to look for the gentler parts of her. For so long all I saw was the strengt...
VERONICA ROTH It's stupid to miss a thing when there are so many people to miss instead, but I miss this train alr...
VERONICA ROTH I have a scar - a faint gouge in my knee from when I fell down on the sidewalk as a child. It's alwa...
VERONICA ROTH I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest.
VERONICA ROTH It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (...) But please...
VERONICA ROTH Here, I've learned to defend myself,
I've learned to be stronger,
but one thing I haven't ...
VERONICA ROTH And you're late."
"I prefer chronologically challenged.
VICTORIA AVEYARD I'm flattered to be compared to (J.K.) Rowling because I think she's done an incredible amount for r...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe.
VERONICA ROTH I was beginning to feel that I had finally found a place to stay, a place that was not so unstable o...
VERONICA ROTH Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy."
[Har...
J.K. ROWLING I have to bite my lip not to screen every foul name I know at the fire starter. What are they thinki...
SUZANNE COLLINS Certos passos você tem de dar sozinho.
SUZANNE COLLINS For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear a...
SUZANNE COLLINS It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss.
SUZANNE COLLINS Not exactly. You see, Portia and I think that the coal miner thing's very overdone. No one will reme...
SUZANNE COLLINS I'm hard to catch. If they can't catch me they cant kill me. So don't count me out.
SUZANNE COLLINS Debe de ser un sistema muy frágil, si un puñado de bayas puede hacer que se derrumbe
SUZANNE COLLINS Eu vou ser o Tordo.
SUZANNE COLLINS Desearia poder encontrar una forma de...de demostrarle al Capitolio que no les pertenezco, que soy a...
SUZANNE COLLINS This is the closest we will ever come to love.
SUZANNE COLLINS As you enter, you pray to leave. As you leave, you pray to never return.
VICTORIA AVEYARD You think giving you a hug would give away too much?" he says.
"You know," I say. "I really don...
VERONICA ROTH What did you do?" I scream.
"You die, I die too.
VERONICA ROTH He turns toward me. I want to touch him, but I’m afraid of his bareness; afraid that he will make ...
VERONICA ROTH You nearly died today,' he says. 'I almost shot you. Why didn't you shoot me, Tris?'
'I couldn'...
VERONICA ROTH No, Margaret Atwood writes literature, whereas I write fiction. I'm from the American Midwest, so li...
STELLA ATRIUM É revelador da crueldade do destino que eu tenha de viajar com aqueles que odeio quando deixo para ...
VERONICA ROTH Cortesia é desilusão embrulhada em papel de embrulho.
VERONICA ROTH I'm not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there's going to be this number of seasons, and I kn...
ALAN BALL I would love to meet J.K. Rowling and tell her how much I admire her writing and am amazed by her im...
SHERYL SANDBERG It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with gu...
VERONICA ROTH The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Littl...
PAUL BLOOM If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill.
If ...
J.K. ROWLING I raise my left arm and twist my neck down to rip off the pill on my sleeve. Instead my teeth sink i...
SUZANNE COLLINS She crept up on me.
SUZANNE COLLINS Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?" I ask.
"Oh, not now. Now we're in a sweet period ...
SUZANNE COLLINS As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.
SUZANNE COLLINS I'm more than just a piece in their Games.
SUZANNE COLLINS What have the nibblers ever done for you?"
The breeze ruffled her hair, pushing it back from he...
SUZANNE COLLINS You want a piece of advice?" said Ripred.
"Don't bother. I know what you'll say. The whole thin...
SUZANNE COLLINS I find myself focusing up at the sky — the only roof left — because too many memories are drowni...
SUZANNE COLLINS Suddenly I know just what I’m going to do. Something that will blow anything Peeta did right out o...
SUZANNE COLLINS Don't look at how it is. Imagine how it was... -Suzanne Blanchard-Wells
BRANDY HEINEMAN J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern tele...
MICHAEL O'BRIEN I think I'll have complex feelings about [the last book], ... It's clearly the series that I will be...
ARTHUR LEVINE The Amity exchange smiles. They are dressed comfortably in red or yellow. Every time I see them, the...
VERONICA ROTH Can you be a girl for a few seconds?"
"I'm always a girl" I frown.
"You know what I mean. ...
VERONICA ROTH She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done f...
VERONICA ROTH His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like t...
VERONICA ROTH In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.
VERONICA ROTH All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can...
VERONICA ROTH One choice can transform you.
One choice can destroy you.
Once choice will define you.
VERONICA ROTH Younger people especially, I urge them to open a Roth. Being able to get tax-free withdrawals is ver...
BOB FITZSIMMONS 'Divergent,' directed by Neil Burger, displayed an admirable seriousness and some grim verve...
RICHARD CORLISS We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's wh...
J.K. ROWLING 'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared in...
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VICTORIA AVEYARD And you're late."
"I prefer chronologically challenged.
VICTORIA AVEYARD If only no one had to fight at all." He shakes his head.
"It does no good to dream.
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VICTORIA AVEYARD A lie will raise me up, and one day another lie will bring me down.
VICTORIA AVEYARD Words can lie. See beyond them.
VICTORIA AVEYARD Rise, red as the dawn.
VICTORIA AVEYARD Their Silver war is being paid for in Red blood.
VICTORIA AVEYARD Kneel or bleed.
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VICTORIA AVEYARD Red blood is just so hard to clean up"
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VICTORIA AVEYARD They trained me for this. It's their own fault. They helped make their own doom.
VICTORIA AVEYARD Anyone, anything, can betray anyone. Even your own heart.
VICTORIA AVEYARD Mare?"
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"I am. I'm afraid of failing. I'm afraid of letting this o...
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VICTORIA AVEYARD There are worse lives to live. Don't feel sorry for me.
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VICTORIA AVEYARD I will never make the mistake of loving you ever again."
"So you choose him?"
That's all t...
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VICTORIA AVEYARD If you know someone's fear, you know them.
VICTORIA AVEYARD Flame and shadow. One cannot exist without the other.
VICTORIA AVEYARD I told you to hide your heart once. You should have listened.
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VICTORIA AVEYARD She was happy, yes, in her own way, as best as she knew.
But there’s a difference between a s...
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VICTORIA AVEYARD Not a god’s chosen, but a god’s cursed. That’s what we all are.
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VICTORIA AVEYARD I am the king and you could've been my Red Queen.
VICTORIA AVEYARD They have their own version of truth, and that's the only one people will hear.
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VICTORIA Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
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VICTORIA WOODHULL By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
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VICTORIA WOODHULL To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
VICTORIA WOODHULL If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled t...
VICTORIA WOODHULL Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men un...
VICTORIA WOODHULL My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntaril...
VICTORIA WOODHULL Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
VICTORIA WOODHULL For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
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VICTORIA WOODHULL I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
VICTORIA WOODHULL I endeavor to make the most of everything.
VICTORIA WOODHULL I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and...
VICTORIA WOODHULL The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government b...
VICTORIA WOODHULL I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of whic...
VICTORIA WOODHULL I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
VICTORIA WOODHULL While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
VICTORIA WOODHULL If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursu...
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VICTORIA PENDLETON People say, 'Wow, you've achieved it all this year: two world championship wins and an Olymp...
VICTORIA PENDLETON Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
VICTORIA PENDLETON You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't n...
VICTORIA PENDLETON I just want to prove that I am really good at something. And I haven't quite done that yet - at ...
VICTORIA PENDLETON I was put on a pony as a kid at some birthday party when you're all led around.
VICTORIA PENDLETON Being a track sprinter, when it's all about a thousandth of a second, there is no escaping the n...
VICTORIA PENDLETON As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I a...
VICTORIA PENDLETON I think I might become a pescatarian. I love sushi, couldn't give it up.
VICTORIA PENDLETON The sprint is sometimes like a toss of a coin. Sometimes it's heads, and sometimes it's tail...
VICTORIA PENDLETON In tennis, you can have a bad set and still win. The part of track cycling that is difficult to find...
VICTORIA PENDLETON Winning is no longer just the outcome. It's part of the process.
VICTORIA PENDLETON I worried I was a boyish shape. I always thought I might grow some, but it never happened.
VICTORIA PENDLETON People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of ...
VICTORIA PENDLETON I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just ...
VICTORIA PENDLETON Food plays a large part in our weekend, but on a Friday evening, I'll make us something simple f...
VICTORIA PENDLETON Cycling as a whole is totally underestimated.
VICTORIA PENDLETON I genuinely enjoy the process of making colourful, delicious food. But I do allow myself an occasion...
VICTORIA PENDLETON Enjoy your food, enjoy your life.
VICTORIA MORAN Every year when I put away my winter clothes and get out my summer clothes, they fit. And I haven...
VICTORIA MORAN I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing ...
VICTORIA MORAN I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need peopl...
VICTORIA MORAN Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
VICTORIA MORAN By itself, tofu is like wet foam rubber, but you'd no more eat it by itself and expect fine dini...
VICTORIA MORAN The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlik...
VICTORIA MORAN You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.
VICTORIA MORAN Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life - my relationships, how I re...
VICTORIA MORAN I'm not perfect, but what's wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don't have t...
VICTORIA MORAN I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spi...
VICTORIA MORAN My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.
VICTORIA MORAN There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. N...
VICTORIA MORAN As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sp...
VICTORIA MORAN Being vegan is not the key to immortality. We're all going to get sick and die. But to know you&...
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