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I could tell him I've been worried for weeks about what the aptitude test will tell me - Abnegation, Candor, Erudite, Amity, or Dauntless? — Veronica Roth

Welcome to the Amity compound,' says Johanna. Her eyes fix on my face, and she smiles crookedly. 'Let us take care of you. — Veronica Roth

Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir! — Amity Gaige

I loved Madeleine L'Engle as a child - 'A Wrinkle in Time.' — Amity Gaige

Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others. — Amity Gaige

I read because I like it. It passes the time and it sucks you in so you don't have to think about anything else. — Amity Hope

I think novels are profoundly autobiographical. If writers deny that, they are lying. Or if it's really true, then I think it's a mistake. — Amity Gaige

What's wrong with the auto industry isn't that it failed to create jobs. What's wrong is that it emphasizes jobs over general growth itself. — Amity Shlaes

My personal writing philosophy is to try and write better every day. — Amity Gaige

Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job. — Amity Shlaes

Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote. — Amity Shlaes

I often read poetry to 'warm up' before I write. — Amity Gaige

To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are. — Amity Gaige

I think I have a very American desire and willingness to divulge everything. I would divulge more if I didn't know it wasn't smart. — Amity Gaige

Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life. — R.A. Salvatore

How we need another soul to cling to. — Sylvia Plath

My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach of the Soviet army. — Amity Gaige

Is there any reason you wish to preserve amity with the Shadowhunters, besides the fact that one of them is your lover? — Cassandra Clare

Perhaps the strongest signal of reengagement with Southeast Asia was the U.S.'s accession to the Southeast Asian Treaty of Amity and Cooperation. — Benigno Aquino III

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. — F Scott Fitzgerald

FDR's job results were, to put it politely, disturbing. — Amity Shlaes

If expectations of lifetime earnings drop, then so will spending. — Amity Shlaes

I went to Hell and back for her! Did you honestly think I would just let you come in here and take her from me? — Amity Hope

As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use. — Dalai Lama

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? — Emily Bronte

LIKE WHAT IS THIS LIFE EVEN. amity crashful: — J.C. Lillis

The difference between recession and depression is simple. Recession, goes the saying, is when you lose your job; depression is when I lose mine. — Amity Shlaes

I would be shocked by the lack of security if we were not at Amity headquarters. They often straddle the line between trust and stupidity. — Veronica Roth

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful. — Amity Shlaes

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity. — Michel De Montaigne

We can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it. — Chris Crutcher

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give. — Bertrand Russell

The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie. — William Shakespeare

I love writing letters. In order to write a novel in first person, I think I needed an addressee. — Amity Gaige

I often heard Latvians compare Russia and America. Latvians find both countries and their leaders possessed of the same mysterious confidence. — Amity Gaige

Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation. — Victor Hugo

The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity. — William Shakespeare

Jake West had ruined the entire male penis experience for me for eternity. Any dick that wasn't his may as well be flaccid and the size of a pin. — Amity Cross

What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity. — Edwin Gaustad

In my view, if you have one in 10 unemployed - something is wrong with the economy whether you call it recession or not. — Amity Shlaes

A faithful friend is a strong defense;
And he that hath found him hath found a treasure. — Louisa May Alcott

Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals. — Herman Melville

Prices don't merely reflect what people think things ought to cost today; they also reflect what people expect items to cost tomorrow. — Amity Shlaes

McCain likes strong defense, and he's viscerally suspicious of big companies. So he's more a Square Deal guy than a New Deal guy. — Amity Shlaes

Seems like Americans just want it to be Halloween all year. The holiday just keeps getting more popular. — Amity Shlaes

My boy - we are a tiny race . . . involved in a vast pursuit . . . amidst the cold stars . . . and all bound together by reason and amity. — M T Anderson

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence. — Amity Shlaes

'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' is, to my mind, a work of perfect genius. — Amity Gaige

I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be. — Suzanne Collins

Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone. — Lance Armstrong

There is a great amity between designing and art. — Joseph Addison

The Amity exchange smiles. They are dressed comfortably in red or yellow. Every time I see them, they seem kind, loving, free. — Veronica Roth

Don't let anyone tell you there's only one way to write. — Amity Gaige

WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity. — Ambrose Bierce

The 1920s are the decade that signaled the arrival of a gift that still means a lot to us: Saturday. — Amity Shlaes

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school. — Amity Gaige

He felt warm and familiar. He felt solid and safe. I wanted to cling to his shirt, bury my face into the warm curve of his neck, and never let go. — Becca Fitzpatrick

If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing. — Jodi Picoult

To be a writer, open your heart. Keep it open. You can't be a writer with a closed heart. — Amity Gaige

Anti-parent music seems to be all the pop-rock market wants. — Amity Shlaes

But I can be your friend in the meantime. We can even exchange friendship bracelets if you want, like the Amity girls used to. — Veronica Roth

Gray stones for Abnegation, water for Erudite, earth for Amity, lit coals for Dauntless, and glass for Candor. — Veronica Roth

There is an extraordinary degree of amity among Washington poets. They hang together. You would be hard pressed to find that in Manhattan. — Maxine Kumin

I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent — Veronica Roth

Self-esteem comes quietly, like the truth. — Amity Gaige

When you know my love, my love will warm you. — Ruby Dee

She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people ... — Nicholas Sparks

Let's admit it; the only use for complaining is to make people laugh. — Amity Gaige

Darcy took the view that if family amity required him to meet people with whom he had little in common, it were best done at their expense not his. — P.D. James

The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship. — Elizabeth Gilbert

When I ache to live, my mind loves to stay with the peaceful whiteness of a pigeon's care...in boundless amity.. — Munia Khan

Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854. — Shigeru Yoshida

Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer. — Amity Gaige

Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject. — Amity Shlaes

As separate people, we are weak, but we could be a peaceful, powerful nation. — Amity Gaige

It takes only a few seconds to make history new again. — Amity Shlaes