The tiny cost of failure. . . is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
In its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device.
In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls.
When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist.
He’s just another man who wants to teach me something.
As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting, seeing light where there's dark, seeing possibility in dead ends, tasting victory as others spit out failure, questioning where others accept. Just a little less jaded, a little less cynical.
No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know.