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I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless.
I am Divergent.
Fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected, in this case I would think interesting would suffice.
Taste is made of a thousand distastes
There was something unspeakably
Dispel, v.
It was the way you said, "I have something to tell you." I could feel the magic drain from the room.
But now we are either horrified at what we see or we pretend we are horrified, while in reality we relish the spectacle, as connoisseurs of strong and eccentric sensations that rouse us from our cynical and lazy apathy;
I have earned my disillusionment.
Adorkable. It's in its own category.
a child's disquiet is as potent as a damp fart.
Perplexity is the beginning of a new way.
sometimes find it difficult to control my indignation in the presence of absurdity." She
Ingratitude is monstrous.
That day, I began to be incredulous. Or, rather, I regretted having been credulous. I regretted having allowed myself to be borne away by a passion of the mind. Such is credulity.
Astonishingly slimy and dangerous
Wonder does not make one industrious, for to feel astonished is to be disturbed.
The great chasm between the thing I say, & the thing I would say, wd be quite dispiriting to me, in spite even of such kindnesses as yours, if the desire did not master the despondency.
Our shock that reality is other than expected is weirdly tenacious
With each passing minute, I'm developing a deeper appreciation of the word mortified,
Existence itself is disconcerting and disorienting.
Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live.
Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.
No matter what station you hold in life, there will always be things that will surprise you. Whether you choose to be outraged or delighted is up to you.
Deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac ... It fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people.
Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
When the remarkable becomes bizarre, reason turns rancid.
When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'
I feel, as a person, very uninteresting.
It is a mark of genius not to astonish but to be astonished.
You could do worse than to be amazed.
Madness is depressing illusion.
Disappointed, yes. Annoyed, yes. But I'm not really mad.
Well, its very exasperating when you can't get it right.
I was stunned with outrage.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
People frequently bore me, sometimes amuse me, most often irritate me, but rarely intrigue me.
The challenge for all of us in this day and age is to distinguish between the merely surprising and the truly amazing.
To dispair is to turn your back on God.
Nothing desiccates a mind so much as its repugnance to conceive obscure ideas.
Insane? No. Dauntless, Yes
doing with the puzzled
People without curiosity are like houses without books: there's something unsettling about them.
Unhappy is a nice word.
Discontment is an insidious thing, trapping us into thinking that which is enough is longer enough, and that which is satisfying is no longer satisfying.
We must always be disturbed by the truth.
The word should be thinkering.
Politicians are nauseating by definition ... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb.
Illusions are bound to be shattered
It desolates me to disappoint you, but your brother is not here. Despite two really praiseworthy attempts at rescue."
... The hint of amusement irritated me, and sick and hurt as I was, I simply had to retort something. "Glad ... at least ... you're desolated.
What's most aggravating is feeling like I'm a radical for saying something so commonsense.
When things are baffling they usually don't unbaffle themselves.There's just, you know, a certain amount of baffling stuff that always, like, really baffles you, and I've found that it's best to accept bafflement whenever it comes along, and then move on.
Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.
Too marvelous for words.
It occurred to me then that the man might not be mad; I found this far more disquieting than the alternative.
...and that's the blank unholy suprise of it.
The truth will make you odd.
Lord Henry, you are quite delightful and dreadfully demoralizing.
Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.
If one is seeking reasons for disloyalty, it is useful to find something one can resent.
The process of illusion & disillusionment is part of life and goes on endlessly.
Being is unrecognizable unless it manages to seem, and seeming is feeble unless it manages to be.
This was madness; this was delirium.
Nothing is more painful than the shock of sharp contradictions that lacerate our intelligence and our feelings.
not Dauntless; I'm Divergent.
The world fascinates me.
Rubbing absently at my temple, I do declare this woman leaves me flabbergasted and tongue tied.
such a strange look of repugnance and horror
Maggie Shipstead's prose is so graceful and muscular, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself to breathe. Astonish Me is a treasure of small surprises.
somehow touching yet repulsive
You asked what you'd done to displease me and I told you: you're breathing. And in much too close a proximity to me. That displeases me. It's
time you depart my bed." Neferet sighed and flicked her fingers at him in dismissal. "Go. Now.
She grew absolutely ashamed of herself. Of neither Darcy nor Wickham could she think without feeling she had been blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd. "How
Nothing is more pleasant than to baffle people. The
Aberrant is not abhorrent
Life can be very perplexing.
Truth can well out of a man like blood from a wound, and it can be just as disconcerting to look at.
The surprise is that you continue to be surprised.
Disembodiment is a kind of terrorism, and the threat of it alters the orbit of all our lives and, like terrorism, this distortion is intentional.
It was bewildering, the way that reality could be overtaken, wrestled down, and murdered by the sheer weight of possibility.
both touching and somehow repulsive.
The beautiful must be incongruous.
Surprise and delight and connection are remarkable.
I'm delirious because I'm dying so fast.
Very' is such a strong word...
You're contumacious.
...it would be a lie to describe the experience as anything less than exhilarating, the repulsive going hand in hand with the wondrous.
... my subjects' willingness to brave bullying and condemnation in order to reveal their individual selves makes it impossible to be nothing less than awestruck.
With 'Delirium,' I had to spend time thinking about the political, social and religious structure of a different world. But it was a fun challenge.
For it is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false.
Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.
Surprises can be compelling.
Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.
Illusions are dangerous.
How contemptible! Of all things in the world inconstancy is my aversion. Let
I'm ridiculous, I'm ludicrous.
Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.
Commonplace things can be fascinating.
The only person I can amaze is me.
Mind hates to seep in delusion soaking faintly discolored obsession.
extraordinarily appealing.
I'm all amazed, befuddled, and beflustered!