Human reason can excuse any evil.

It happened. It was awful. You aren’t perfect. That’s all there is. Don’t confuse your grief with guilt.”We stay in the silence and the loneliness of the otherwise empty dormitory for a few more minutes,...

I am afraid that if I start to sob, I will never stop until I shrivel up like a raisin.

This is what I chose. This is it.” I look over Robert’s shoulder. The Dauntless guards seem to have finished examining the truck. The bearded man gets back into the driver’s seat and closes the...

Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.

Oh. I just assumed… That because I am so absorbed by him everyone must be too.

We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.

‘Be careful, though.’ ‘Aren’t I always?’ ‘No, I think the word for how you usually are is ‘reckless.’

It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.

The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.

Maybe there is some Abnegation in everyone. Well in everyone but Peter.”-Tris Prior

He must have stood there for a long time, making a list of all the terrible things he had done—almost killinng me was one of those thingss—and another list of all the good, heroic, brave...

She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love… That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who...

He smells safe, too, like sunlit walks in the orchard and silent breakfastsin the dining hall. And in the moments before I drift off to sleep, I almost forget about our war-torn city and all...

Didn’t you?

Sun shining. Birds chirping.”She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an undergroundtunnel.

I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

Sin embargo, recuerda que, a veces, las personas a las que oprimes se hacen más poderosas de lo que te gustaría.

Sometimes I feel like we are the same, but sometimes, like right now, I feel the separation between our personalities like I’ve just run into a wall.

We don’t know what’s happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last people left.

El miedo no te apaga; sino que te despierta.

That night we push our cots just a little closer together, and look into each other’s eyes in the moments before we fall asleep. When he finally drifts off, our fingers are twisted together in...

I feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.

I am not Tobias Eaton, not anymore, never again. I am Dauntless.

I fell in love with him. But I don’t just stay with him by default as if there’s no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that...

Because inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom.. and as hard as I try, I cannot kill it.

It doesn’t do anything obvious. But it might be able to do something in here. – Then she touched her hand to her heart. – Beautiful things sometimes do.

The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature – or at least what it has become.

I shower in the dark, barely able to tell soap from conditioner, and tell myself that I will emerge new and strong, that the water will heal me.

Or maybe we’ll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now.

I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.

I don’t need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.

I regret…” Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. “I regret my choice.””What Choice?””Dauntless,” he says. “I was born Abnegation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But I met her, and… I felt...

Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity shouldn’t rely on it, because it’s not guaranteed and it’s not permanent and...

I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.

But you should know that about Dauntless- girl, guy, whatever, it doesn’t matter here. What matters is what you’ve got in your gut.

No,I just thought I’d shoot bullets out of my nose

It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.

He wraps his arms around me and holds me tight for a few seconds. Hisbreaths tickle my ear, and I close my eyes, letting myself finally relax. Hesmells like wind and sweat and soap, like...

Czasem płacz albo śmiech to jedyne, co pozostało (…)

We could visit him,” suggests Will. “But what would we say? ‘I didn’t know you that well, but I’m sorry you got stabbed in the eye’?

I clench my teeth as tears come. I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn’t much I can do to stop them. ~ ‘Tris

(…) I do want to leave, in the desperate way that an animal wants to escape a trap. Wild and rabid. Ready to gnaw through bone.

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 whereeverything I’ve ever known is coming apart. I...

She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil inside ourselves,so we’re able to forgive them.

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.