You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.

It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules....

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have...

Some days are harder than others, but I am ready to live each one of them. I can’t sacrifice myself, this time.

I still want to be angry, but I have to let my anger go.

Me enamoré de él. Pero no solamente estoy con él por defecto, como si no hubiera nadie más disponible para mí. Estoy con él porque lo elijo, cada día que me despierto, cada día que...

I also don’t believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much like an Erudite afterlife to me, all accuracy and no feeling.

Of course.” He winks at me.

You will be the first test subject, Tobias. Beatrice, however….” She smiles. “You are too injured to be of much use to me, so your execution will occur at the conclusion of this meeting.”I try...

Everything has changed and it won’t stop changing anytime soon.

Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn’t have this guilt – the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it.

That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel.

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.

I am wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, black shoes–new clothes, but beneath them, my Dauntless tattoos. It is impossible to erase my choices. Especially these.

The only reason I haven’t shot you yet is because he’s the one who should get to do it,” I say. “Stay away from him or I’ll decide I no longer care.

My body rises with the water. Instead of kicking my feet to stay abreast of it, I push all the air from my lungs and sink to the bottom. The water muffles my ears. I...

How do you stop conflict without conflict?

One ChoiceOne Choice, decided your friends.One Choice, defines your beliefs.One Choice, determines your loyalties – Forever.ONCE CHOICE CAN TRANSFORM YOU

Panic and terror aren’t the only kinds of fear. There are deeper kinds, more terrible kinds. Apprehension and heavy, heavy dread.

Yes, I say. Three of these flying birds. I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight-toward my heart. One for each member of the family I left behind.

I don’t want to cry for Edward- at least not in the deep, personal way that you cry for a friend or loved one. I want to cry because something terrible happened, and I saw...

I like to hurt people too. I can make the cruelest choice. The difference is, sometimes I don’t, and you always do, and that makes you evil.

No crees en las cosas porque hagan tu vida mejor, crees en ellas porque son ciertas.

Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.

but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.”I frown and pull back. That is a lesson that members of Abnegation learn – guilt as a tool, rather than...

I love you” I say.”I love you, too” he says. “I’ll see you soon.

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

… if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever. And it will never change back.” – Zoe

I think it’s important to protect people. To stand up for people […] That’s what courage is. Not… hurting people for no reason.” – Al

My mother wasn’t a fool,” I say. “She just understood something you didn’t. That it’s not sacrifice if it’s someone else’s life you’re giving away, it’s just evil.”I back up another step and say, “She...

It’s not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.

Esa es mi chica, dura cómo una bola de algodón

I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I’ve done, but I’m sure my list would never be complete. I also don’t believe that whatever comes after...

I don’t know how long i tis before we get cold again, and huddle under the blanket together.-It’s getting more difficult to be wise. – He says,laughing into my ear.I smile at him. – I...

Moths,” repeats Will. “You’re afraid of moths?” “Not just a cloud of moths,” she says, “like…a swarm of them. Everywhere. All those wings and legs and…” She shudders and shakes her head.”Terrifying,” Will says with...

Psyche you out?” I repeat. “I’m your FRIEND. I wouldn’t do that.” He doesn’t say anything. I can tell he doesn’t believe me-not quite.

Who cares about everyone? What about me?

We believe in bravery. We believe in taking action. We believe in freedom from fear and in acquiring the skills to force the bad out of our world so that the good can prosper and...

I have been able to be kind and pleasant to him because every time I think of what happened in Erudite headquarters, I immediately push the thought aside. But that can’t be forgiveness – if...

It is impossible to erase my choices.

I don’t know why, but his reaction disappoints me.

They think that because I’m small, or a girl, or a stiff, I can’t possibly be cruel. But they’re wrong.

The ability to think isn’t exclusive to erudite

Yeah ’cause throwing knives at a girk is totally Going to get her to like you. #Tobiaslogic

The person you became with her is worth being.

maybe here, in dauntless, bravery is the highest form of wisdom. the acknowledgement that life can and should be lived without fear

I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family.And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior

Caleb,’ I say. ‘I love you.

I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart.

It’s about everyone watching! Everyone who now seeshurling themselves into the chasm as a viable option. I mean, why not do it if everyonecalls you a hero afterward? Why not do it if everyone will...