It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
Few people who are born into Abnegation choose to leave it. When they do, we remember.
If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
Resisting is worth doing.
I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
My mother told me once that we can't survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
I think that I'm so fortunate to have found classical ballet. It completely changed my life and it shaped the person that I am today, on and off the stage.
Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.
It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.
I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.