Hay poder en el control de algo que puede hacer daño.

Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.

I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I’m finding.

I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.

Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other

Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.

I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Becauseinside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom, toward Tobias, and, aboveall, toward life. And...

I was angry with him before. I’m not really sure why. Maybe I was just angry that the world had become such a complicated place, that I have never known even a fraction of the...

Lies require commitment.

So this is where you grew up. Did you like it here? I guess you couldn’t have, if you wanted to leave.’ CHRISTINA’I liked some things and hated some things. And there were some things...

It must require bravery to be honest all the time.

Because life is not fair, Albert. And the world is conspiring against you.

I’ll be your family now,” he says. “I love you,” I say. (….)He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms for stability as he considers his response. He frowns at me....

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

Intentions are the only thing they care about. They try to make you think they care about what you do, but they don’t. They don’t want you to act a certain way, they want you...

no wonder you left.”Yeah,” i say, rolling my eyes. ” It was just because of the food.

Mockery is childish. It does not become you.

I think I speak for everyone,” he says, “when I say you have earned the title of Dauntless”.

It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.

Uznajemy zwyczajne akty męstwa, odwagę, która każe jednej osobie stanąć w obronie drugiej’.

I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.

But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost.

(…) a man encased in ice, his eyes hard and his voice like a frosty exhale.

I close my eyes. I don’t expect Four to reassure me, and he makes no effort to, but I feel better standing here than I did out there among the people who are my friends,...

You know what Abnegation used to say about pride?’ ‘Something unfavorable,I assume.’ I laugh.’ Obviously. They said it blinds people to the truth of what they are.

If we’re afraid to be ourselves, then who are we? Where’s there left to hide?But if we could concur that fear, we just might be strong, powerful. We just might be unstoppable.

Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.”Well,’ he says, ‘I would only go if there was cake.

I feel something hot and violent writhing in my stomach. I want to hurt them. I stare at my eyes in the mirror. I want so, so I will.

If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it.

I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me–they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.

We’ve all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don’t want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and...

Sí, a veces la vida es una mierda, pero ,sabes por qué aguanto? Por los momentos que no apestan. El truco está en darse cuenta de ellos cuando vienen

Siempre hay algo que se aprende, siempre se aprende algo importante

I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.

Everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.

I also remember that my father was one of the people who voted to get the Dauntless out of the factionless sector of the city. He said the poor didn’t need policing; they needed help,...

I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent.

I fit my mouth to his and he tastes like water and smells like fresh air. I drag my hand from his neck to the small of his back and put it under his shirt....

Eric called Al’s suicide brave, and he was wrong. My mother’s death was brave. I remember how calm she was, how determined. It isn’t just brave that she died for me; it is brave that...

Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.

Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion.

You’re the one who has to live whit your choice” she says.”Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.

Damn,’ someone behind me says. ‘I was hoping we would get to scrape some Stiff pancake off the pavement later.

Why is your heart racing Tris?

What is wrong with you?’ I shake my head. ‘Pull it together.’ And that’s what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up and in like a shoelace. I feel suffocated, but at...

I decide to keep the shirt to remind me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.

If they told us what to believe, and we didn’t come to it on our own, is it still true?

Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives.